Julia Koets
Assistant Professor
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Office: CPR 332
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BIO
Julia Koets is the author of three books: The Rib Joint: A Memoir in Essays, a LAMBDA Literary Award finalist; PINE, a 2022 Florida Book Award winner, a 2022 Best Book Award from the 19th Annual American Book Fest, a 2021 Julie Suk Award Finalist, and a 2021 Forward Indie Poetry Award Finalist; and Hold Like Owls, a South Carolina Poetry Book Award winner.
The recipient of a 2023 National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship, an Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Award, and a National Science Foundation Grant, Julia has nonfiction essays and poems published in literary journals including Creative Nonfiction, Indiana Review, Nimrod, The Los Angeles Review, Southern Indiana Review, The Journal, Carolina Quarterly, and Portland Review.
Julia earned her MFA at the University of South Carolina and her Ph.D. in Creative Writing and Literature at the University of Cincinnati, where she received a Darwin T. Turner Scholar’s Program Teaching Award.
In the undergraduate creative writing program and MFA program at USF, Julia teaches workshop and craft courses in nonfiction and poetry. Some of her recent courses include: Nonfiction Writing: Narratives of the Body; Nonfiction Writing: Love, Desire, & Heartbreak; The Poet as Time Traveler; Research in Nonfiction; To Digress, To Imagine, & to Reckon With in Nonfiction; The Poet as Architect; Form and Technique of Nonfiction; Form and Technique of Poetry; Poetry I. Julia also directs graduate theses in nonfiction, poetry, and hybrid forms and runs The Spoonbill Reading Series. In recognition of her research and creative work, she was awarded a 2021-2022 McKnight Junior Faculty Fellowship and a 2022 Humanities Institute Summer Grant.
EDUCATION
PhD, University of Cincinnati
MFA, University of South Carolina
AREAS OF SPECIALTY
Creative writing: nonfiction, memoir, essay, essay collections, lyric essay, poetry