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Julia Lisella is the author of Terrain (WordTech Editions, 2007) and Love Song Hiroshima (Finishing Line Press, 2004), a chapbook. She has taught literature and writing at Tufts, MIT, Harvard, and now at Regis College where she is Assistant Professor of American Literature. She is also a scholar of American modernism and has written pieces on Mina Loy, Lola Ridge, Genevieve Taggard and others. She grew up in Queens, New York, went to Barnard for her BA and NYU for her MA in creative writing. While going to grad school, Julia made her living freelancing for the Village Voice, Fodor's Travel Guides and other publications. She gave up the press passes and the great travel for domestic and scholarly pursuits, married her then-boyfriend, moved to Massachusetts, became a mom, and got her PhD from Tufts University. You can find her poems in journals like Prairie Schooner, Pleiades, Crab Orchard Review, VIA: Voices in Italian Americana, Paterson Literary Review, Many Mountains Moving, and Solo and online at Literary Mama, Pebble Lake Review, The Pedestal, and Mystic River Review. Her poems have been anthologized, most recently in the Wompo (that's Women Poets) listserve's new collection soon out from Red Hen Press, Letters to the World. She has received residencies from the Millay, Dorset and MacDowell Colonies for the arts and has held several grants from the Massachusetts Cultural Council.
