Julia Koets is the author of three books: The Rib Joint: A Memoir in Essays, a LAMBDA Literary Award finalist, PINE, a Florida Book Award winner, and Hold Like Owls, a South Carolina Poetry Book Award winner.
The recipient of a 2023 National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship in Poetry and an Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Award, Julia has poems and essays published in literary journals including Creative Nonfiction, Indiana Review, Nimrod, The Los Angeles Review, Carolina Quarterly, and Portland Review.
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.
She earned her MFA 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 writing at the University of South Florida.
