Julie Marie Wade

JULIE MARIE WADE is Professor of English & Creative Writing at Florida International University in Miami. Her recent collections include The Mary Years (Texas Review Press, 2024), selected by Michael Martone as the winner of the 2023 Clay Reynolds Novella Prize, Otherwise: Essays (Autumn House Press, 2023), selected by Lia Purpura for the 2022 Autumn House Nonfiction Book Prize, Fugue: An Aural History (Diagram/New Michigan Press, 2023), Skirted: Poems (The Word Works, 2021), and Just an Ordinary Woman Breathing (The Ohio State University Press, 2020). Her co-authored collections include Telephone: Essays in Two Voices (Cleveland State University Press, 2021), written with Brenda Miller and selected by Hanif Abdurraqib for the 2019 Cleveland State University Press Nonfiction Book Award, and The Unrhymables: Collaborations in Prose (Noctuary Press, 2019), written with Denise Duhamel. A finalist for the National Poetry Series and a winner of the Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Memoir, Julie makes her home in Dania Beach with her spouse Angie Griffin and their two cats.

QUICK CHANGE ARTIST BY JULIE MARIE WADE

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WINNER OF THE 2023 ANHINGA PRIZE FOR POETRY Selected by Octavio Quintanilla — Quick Change Artist is a postmodern paean to Whitman’s pronouncement, “I am large, I contain multitudes.” From her “Fortieth Birthday Poem” through a series of secular psalms to a “slanted crown” of sonnets written during the global pandemic, Wade’s speaker in Quick Change Artist never stops evolving, in content or in form. Shetraverses physical and social geographies, dropping pins across the overlapping maps of popular culture, politics, lesbian identity, marriage, and middle age. From odes to elegies, lineated free verse to haibun and prose poems, Quick Change Artist is a stylish and subversive collection that wears many hats and strikes many chords.