Julie Marie Wade is the author of 15 collections of poetry, prose, and hybrid forms and the book-length lyric essay Just an Ordinary Woman Breathing. With Denise Duhamel, she co-authored The Unrhymables: Collaborations in Prose, and with Brenda Miller, Telephone: Essays in Two Voices. She teaches in the creative writing program at Florida International University in Miami. In her most recent collection, Skirted: Poems (Word Works), Wade’s poems glisten with precise and honest lines that chart how their queer speaker measures and crosses water in all its incarnations. Myth and memory intertwine to reveal the simultaneity of chasm and connection. In this dissonance, the discomfort of being a slowly ripping apart and reforming continent, Wade reaches new lyric heights.
