Julie Marie Wade

Julie Marie Wade is a poet, memoirist, essayist, and professor of English at Florida International University in Miami. Her collections include Wishbone: A Memoir in Fractures (Colgate University Press, 2010, and Bywater Books, 2014), winner of the 2011 Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Memoir; Small Fires: Essays (Sarabande Books, 2011); Postage Due (White Pine Press, 2013), winner of the Marie Alexander Poetry Series; When I Was Straight: Poems (A Midsummer Night's Press, 2014); Catechism: A Love Story (Noctuary Press, 2016); SIX: Poems (Red Hen Press, 2016), winner of the AROHO’s To the Lighthouse Poetry Publication Prize; Same-Sexy Marriage: A Novella in Poems (A Midsummer Night's Press, 2018); The Unrhymables: Collaborations in Prose (Noctuary Press, 2019), coauthored with Denise Duhamel; Just an Ordinary Woman Breathing (The Ohio State University Press, 2020); Skirted: Poems (The Word Works, 2021); Telephone: Essays in Two Voices (Cleveland State University Poetry Center, 2021), coauthored with Brenda Miller and winner of the Cleveland State University Press Nonfiction Book Award; Fugue: An Aural History (Diagram/New Michigan Press, 2023); and Otherwise: Essays (Autumn House Press, 2023), winner of the Autumn House Nonfiction Prize. Wade is a recipient of grants from the Kentucky Arts Council and the Barbara Deming Memorial Fund, and she makes her home in Dania Beach with Angie Griffin and their two cats.