Julia Madsen

Julia Madsen is a multimedia poet and educator. She received an MFA in Literary Arts from Brown University and is a PhD candidate in English/Creative Writing at the University of Denver. Her first book, The Boneyard, The Birth Manual, A Burial: Investigations into the Heartland (Trembling Pillow Press), was listed on Entropy’s Best Poetry Books of 2018. Blue-collar born and raised in the Midwest, she is the video editor at Reality Beach and has shown video poetry and multimedia installations at &Now: A Festival of Innovative Writing, Outlet Fine Art Gallery, No Nation Art Gallery, Counterpath Gallery, Cabal Gallery, the Humanities, Arts, Science, and Technology Alliance and Collaboratory, and Denver’s Unseen film festival. Her video work has appeared in VICE's "The Creators Project," and her poems, reviews, and multimedia work have also appeared or are forthcoming in jubilat, Tarpaulin Sky, Tupelo Quarterly, Omniverse, Black Warrior Review, Word for/Word, CutBank, Entropy, Full Stop, and elsewhere.