Laura Julier

Laura Julier is former editor of Fourth Genre, the literary journal of nonfiction. She's published personal essays in a variety of literary journals and anthologies, and has contributed academic essays and chapters to a number of academic and scholarly books. She has been a professor of writing at Michigan State University, Drake University, and the University of Iowa, and has won outstanding teaching awards at each. She currently works as a hospital chaplain and lives in Iowa City in a house built in 1893, with a dirt alley behind it, where once a barred owl lived in an old swamp maple.