Julie Marie Wade is the author of many collections of poetry, prose, and hybrid forms, including the recent volumes Otherwise: Essays, selected by Lia Purpura for the 2022 Autumn House Nonfiction Book Prize, and Skirted: Poems. A winner of the Marie Alexander Poetry Series and the Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Memoir, Wade is professor of creative writing at Florida International University and makes her home with Angie Griffin and their two cats in Dania Beach. In 1992, she began watching The Mary Tyler Moore Show on Nick at Nite and never stopped.
