Julia Koets

<p><strong>Julia Koets</strong>’ poetry collection, <em>Hold Like Owls </em>(University of South Carolina Press)<em>, </em>won the 2011 South Carolina Poetry Book Prize, judged by National Book Award Winner Nikky Finney, and her memoir-in-essays, <em>The Rib Joint </em>(Red Hen Press)<em>, </em>won the 2017 Red Hen Press Nonfiction Book Award judged by Mark Doty. Her poems and essays have appeared or are forthcoming in <em>Indiana Review, Creative Nonfiction, </em>and <em>The Los Angeles Review. </em>She has an MFA in poetry from the University of South Carolina and a PhD in literature and creative writing from the University of Cincinnati. She currently teaches at Clemson University.</p> <p><a href="https://www.juliakoets.com/">https://www.juliakoets.com/</a></p>