Bio



Julie Gard enjoys living in an atmospheric old house, except for rotting storm windows and other eternal repairs. She loves her backyard full of berries though not when picking bucket #11. While she used to live for dangerous world travel, she is now a committed homebody, albeit one who envisions spending the occasional night on the other end of town in a canned ham trailer.

When not pondering the metaphorical possibilities of abandoned craft projects and litter, Julie teaches writing at the University of Wisconsin Superior. She has a B.A. in English from Grinnell College, an M.F.A. in Creative Writing from the University of Minnesota, and a certificate proving she survived a challenging and rewarding year in Vladivostok, Russia as a Fulbright Graduate Fellow.

Julie's first prose poetry collection, Home Studies, won the Many Voices Project Prize from New Rivers Press and was a finalist for the Minnesota Book Award. Additional collections include Scrap: On Louise Nevelson from Ravenna Press and, most recently, I Think I Know You from FutureCycle Press. Chapbooks include Obscura: The Daguerreotype Series (Finishing Line Press) and Russia in 17 Objects (Tiger's Eye Press).

Julie lives a block from Lake Superior in Duluth, Minnesota with her partner, the poet Michelle Matthees, their Norwegian Forest cat, and their ever-alert hound-mix pup.