Julia Shipley, Guest Author September 7-11

This week we welcome Julia Shipley as our guest author. Julia is the author of a debut collectionThe Academy of Hay,(Bona Fide Books, 2015) winner of the Melissa Lanitis Gregory Poetry Prize. Her first prose book Adam's Mark, was supported by a Vermont Arts Council Creation Grant and named a 2014 Best Book About New England by the Boston Globe. She holds an MFA from Bennington College and her poems and essays have appeared inCutBank, Cincinnati Review, Colorado Review, FIELD, Fourth Genre, Green Mountains Review, North American Review, Poet Lore, Poetry, and The Rumpus. Her website is www.writingonthefarm.com

 

 

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