Julie Marie Wade's collections include SKIRTED (The Word Works, 2021), Wishbone: A Memoir in Fractures, Small Fires: Essays, Postage Due: Poems & Prose Poems, WHEN I WAS STRAIGHT (A Midsummer Night's Press, 2018), SIX, SAME-SEXY MARRIAGE (A Midsummers Night's Press, 2018), CATECHISM: A LOVE STORY (Noctuary Press, 2016), and Just an Ordinary Woman Breathing. With Denise Duhamel, she wrote The Unrhymables: Collaborations in Prose, and with Brenda Miller, Telephone: Essays in Two Voices. A winner of the Marie Alexander Poetry Series and the Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Memoir, she teaches in the creative writing program at Florida International University and reviews regularly for Lambda Literary Review and The Rumpus.