Julia Poet
"Julia has been writing since she could hold a pen."
Julia Poet is an author and two-time award-winning poet from the East Bay Area. Survivor. Optimist. Activist. Public speaker. Honors university student. Model. People lover.
A reader of inspiring memoirs between drafts — and a devoted student of Pilates, faithful to the studio she counts as a second home. It's the practice that keeps her body in her words, and her words in her body. Off the mat, she's at coffee shops, corner bars, and strangers' tables — a generous talker, an even better listener, in the belief that knowing other people well is the slow way back to knowing herself.
At home she keeps company with her cat Madam Curie — Curie for short — named for the woman who taught the rest of us to look for the light inside the dark thing.
Progression
From the mind of Julia Poet comes her debut poetry collection. Progression vulnerably encapsulates the meaning of persevering through addiction, grief, and loss — motivated by the light of overcoming, embracing love, during the hardest years of her life, with the support of love and light. An honest unveiling of strength, taking readers through every new wisdom, one page at a time.
The Prose Side
Long-form on grief, friendship, the body, and the years the work calls "the lost ones." She doesn't soften any of it.
She is present and she is absent.read Ana: a Sketch Essay →
She is cold and unforgiving.
She is the mistress of manipulation.
She is inside my head.
The Graduation Dinner
What happens when the people you removed from your life walk into the room on the night you'd been dreaming of.
Read essay →Ana: A Sketch Essay
A personification of anorexia, written from inside the disorder. Trigger warnings apply.
Read essay →The People Who Make the Pages
Conversations with the writers, mentors, and survivors who keep her company at the desk.
Read essay →San Francisco, Pilates, Curie
Short dispatches from the in-between hours.
Read essay →& I'll write you a poem.
For press, readings, speaking, modeling, and the occasional pen-pal — write to Julia at the address below.