JULIE MARIE WADE ON THE MARY YEARS – NONFICTION

JULIE MARIE WADE writes and publishes poetry, prose, and hybrid forms. Her most recent and forthcoming collections include The Mary Years (Texas Review Press), which was selected by Michael Martone for the 2023 Clay Reynolds Novella Prize; Quick Change Artist: Poems (Anhinga Press), selected by Octavio Quintanilla for the 2023 Anhinga Prize for Poetry; and The Latest: 20 Ghazals for 2020 (Harbor Editions), co-authored with Denise Duhamel. A finalist for the National Poetry Series prize and a winner of the Lambda Literary Award for lesbian memoir, Wade teaches in the creative writing program at Florida International University in Miami and makes her home with Angie Griffin and their two cats in Dania Beach, Florida.