Julie Marie Wade

Julie Marie Wade (born 1979)[1] is an American writer and professor of creative writing. Wade has received numerous awards for her writing, most notably winning the Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Memoir or Biography in 2011 for her book Wishbone.[2]

Biography

Wade was born in Seattle, Washington in 1979[1] and came out as gay in 2002 at the age of 23.[3] She currently lives with her wife, Angie Griffin, in Hollywood, Florida.[4]

Education

Wade received a Bachelor of Arts in 2000 from the University of London, where she studied English and Psychology.[5] She then attended Western Washington University, where she graduated with a Master of Arts in English, as well as a graduate certificate in Composition Studies, in 2003.[5] In 2006, she received a Master of Fine Arts in Poetry and a graduate certificate in Women's Studies from the University of Pittsburgh in 2006.[5] She later studied Interdisciplinary Humanities at the University of Louisville, receiving a Doctor of Philosophy in 2012.[5]

Career

Aside from writing, Wade has worked at many educational institutions: Western Washington University, Arlington Elementary School in Pittsburgh, University of Pittsburgh, Carlow University, Olney Friends School, the University of Louisville, and Florida International University.

Wade currently serves as an Associate Professor of Creative Writing at Florida International University in Miami.[6] She has received grants from the Kentucky Arts Council and the Barbara Deming Memorial Fund.[7]

Awards

Wade has been a finalist and winner of many writing prizes, some of which are noted in the table below.

Year Title Award Result Ref.
2005 "Lying in Bed" Oscar Wilde Award Won [8]
2009 "Four Eyes in a Dark Room" Mary C. Mohr Nonfiction Award, Southern Indiana Review 2nd Prize [5]
2011 Wishbone Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Memoir or Biography Won [2]
2012 Small Fires Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Memoir or Biography Nominated [9]
2012 Tremolo Bloom Nonfiction Chapbook Prize Won [10]
2012 “Meditation 32” Thomas Wilhelmus Award in Creative Nonfiction, Southern Indiana Review Nominated [11]
2012 Six Idaho Prize for Poetry Nominated [12]
2014 Six A Room of Her Own Foundation's To The Lighthouse Prize Won [10]
2014 “Trilogy” Robert and Adele Schiff Award in Prose, The Cincinnati Review Honorable mention [13]
2015 When I Was Straight Over the Rainbow List Selection [14]
2015 “Source Amnesia” Spoon River Editors’ Prize in Poetry Won [15]
2016 “Meditation 36” Thomas Wilhelmus Award in Creative Nonfiction, Southern Indiana Review Won [4]
2019 “503A” Pushcart Prize Special mention [16]
2019 “Perfect Hands” Robert and Adele Schiff Award in Prose, The Cincinnati Review Won [17]
2021 Just an Ordinary Woman Breathing Judy Grahn Award for Lesbian Nonfiction Nominated [18]
2024 Otherwise Lambda Literary Award for Nonfiction Pending [19]

Books

Creative nonfiction

  • Wishbone: A Memoir in Fractures (Colgate University Press, 2010; Bywater Books, 2014)
  • Small Fires: Essays (Sarabande Books, 2011)
  • Tremolo: An Essay (Bloom Press, 2013)
  • Catechism: A Love Story (Noctuary Press, 2016)
  • The Unrhymables: Collaborations in Prose, with Denise Duhamel (Noctuary Press, 2019)
  • Just an Ordinary Woman Breathing (The Ohio State University, 2020)
  • Telephone: Essays in Two Voices, with Brenda Miller (Cleveland State University Poetry Center, 2021)

Hybrid forms

Poetry

  • Without: Poems (Finishing Line Press, 2010)
  • Postage Due: Poems & Prose Poems (White Pine Press, 2013)
  • When I Was Straight (A Midsummer Night's Press, 2014)
  • SIX (Red Hen Press, 2016)
  • Same-Sexy Marriage: Poems (A Midsummer Night's Press, 2018)
  • Skirted: Poems (The Word Works, 2021)

References

  1. ^ a b "About". Julie Marie Wade. Retrieved 2022-02-23.
  2. ^ a b "23rd Annual Lambda Literary Award Winners". Lambda Literary. 2011-05-27. Retrieved 2022-02-23.
  3. ^ "Interview with Julie Marie Wade". University of Southern Indiana. Archived from the original on 2022-02-23. Retrieved 2022-02-23.
  4. ^ a b "Thomas A. Wilhelmus Short Prose Award". University of Southern Indiana. Archived from the original on 2022-02-23. Retrieved 2022-02-23.
  5. ^ a b c d e "Spring 2009". University of Southern Indiana. Archived from the original on 2022-02-23. Retrieved 2022-02-23.
  6. ^ "Julie Marie Wade". Florida International University. Retrieved 2022-02-23.
  7. ^ "Wade, Julie Marie". Florida International University. Retrieved 2022-02-23.
  8. ^ "Congrats to Julie Marie Wade". Gival Press. 2021-03-17. Retrieved 2022-02-23.
  9. ^ Yates, Ryan (2012-03-20). "Lambda Literary Awards 2012: New Books to Love". Autostraddle. Retrieved 2022-02-23.
  10. ^ a b Cortes-Lohn, Kasey (2014-10-15). "Julie Marie Wade Awarded 2014 To The Lighthouse Prize". CASE News. Retrieved 2022-02-23.
  11. ^ "Thomas A. Wilhelmus Award" (PDF). Southern Indiana Review. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2020-08-04. Retrieved 2022-02-22.
  12. ^ "Winner of the Idaho Prize 2012 Announced!". Lost Horse Press. 16 August 2012. Retrieved 2022-02-23.
  13. ^ "Schiff Award Winners!". The Cincinnati Review. 2014-10-01. Retrieved 2022-02-23.
  14. ^ "2015 Over the Rainbow List: 78 LGBT Books for Adult Readers". Over the Rainbow Books. 2015-02-01. Archived from the original on 2022-02-23. Retrieved 2022-02-23.
  15. ^ "Spoon River Poetry Review". Spoon River Poetry Review. Retrieved 2022-02-23.
  16. ^ Pushcart prize XLIII, 2019 : best of the small presses. Bill Henderson, Pushcart Press. Wainscott, New York. 2019. ISBN 978-1-888889-89-5. OCLC 1023544876.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) CS1 maint: others (link)
  17. ^ "Announcing Our Contest Winners!". The Cincinnati Review. 2019-10-03. Retrieved 2022-02-23.
  18. ^ "The Judy Grahn Award for Lesbian Nonfiction". The Publishing Triangle. Retrieved 2022-02-23.
  19. ^ "Announcing the Finalists for the 36th Annual Lambda Literary Awards". them. 2024-03-27. Retrieved 2024-04-05.