Julie Marie Wade is a member of the creative writing faculty at Florida International University in Miami. A winner of the Marie Alexander Poetry Series and the Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Memoir, her collections of poetry and prose include Wishbone: A Memoir in Fractures (Bywater Books, 2014), Small Fires: Essays (Sarabande Books, 2011), Postage Due: Poems & Prose Poems (White Pine Press, 2013), When I Was Straight (A Midsummer-Night’s Press, 2014), Same-Sexy Marriage: A Novella in Poems (A Midsummer-Night’s Press, 2018), Just an Ordinary Woman Breathing (Mad Creek Books, 2020), and Skirted (Word Works, 2021). Her collaborative titles include The Unrhymables: Collaborations in Prose, written with Denise Duhamel, and Telephone: Essays in Two Voices, written with Brenda Miller. Wade makes her home in Dania Beach with her spouse Angie Griffin and their two cats. Her newest project is Fugue: An Aural History, out now from Diagram/New Michigan Press.