JULIA KOETS
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    Julia Koets

Julia Koets is the author of PINE, Hold Like Owls, and The Rib Joint: A Memoir in Essays, a LAMBDA Literary Award finalist.

Julia's essay "The Rib Joint" was named a Best American Essays 2020 notable essay. She is the winner of the 2017 Red Hen Press Nonfiction Book Award judged by Mark Doty, the 2019 Michael Waters Poetry Prize, and the 2011 South Carolina Poetry Book Prize judged by National Book Award Winner Nikky Finney.

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​Julia's essays and poems have been published in literary journals including Creative Nonfiction, Indiana Review, Nimrod, The Los Angeles Review, Carolina Quarterly, and Portland Review. 

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She earned her M.F.A. in poetry at the University of South Carolina and her Ph.D. in Creative Writing and Literature at the University of Cincinnati.


She's an assistant professor of creative nonfiction at the University of South Florida.  
Contact: juliakoets[at]gmail[dot]com
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