Julie Marie Wade is the newest addition to the faculty of the MFA Program in Creative Writing. Wade, who will be teaching memoir/nonfiction, completed
her Ph.D. in Interdisciplinary Humanities with creative dissertation at the University
of Louisville in 2012, after having received a Master of Arts in English at
Western Washington University and a Master of Fine Arts in Poetry at the
University of Pittsburgh.
She has received the Chicago Literary Award in
Poetry, the
Gulf Coast Nonfiction Prize, the Oscar Wilde Poetry Prize, the
Literal Latte Nonfiction Award, two Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Prizes,
the AWP Intro Journals Award, the
American
Literary Review Nonfiction Prize (read her
prize-winning piece here), the
Arts & Letters Nonfiction Prize, an Al Smith Individual Artist Fellowship
from the Kentucky Arts Council, the Thomas J. Hruska Nonfiction Prize, and the
Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Memoir. She is the author of two
collections of lyric nonfiction,
Wishbone:A Memoir in Fractures (Colgate University Press, 2010) and
Small Fires (Sarabande Books, 2011), and
two collections of poetry,
Without
(Finishing Line Press, 2010) and
Postage
Due (White Pine Press, forthcoming in 2013). Learn more at
www.juliemariewade.com
