Julia Wendell has two full-length collections of poems, An Otherwise Perfect History (Ithaca House, 1988) and Wheeler Lane (Igneus Press, 1998), as well as a chapbook, Fires at Yellowstone (Bacchae Press, 1994). She received her BA in English from Cornell University, her MA in English and American Literature from Boston University, and her MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Iowa, Writer’s Workshop. She was the Founder and Editor-in-Chief of the literary small press, Galileo Press from 1982 to the present. She has taught at Phoenix Country Day School, Arizona State University, the University of Iowa, Howard Community College and Goucher College. Currently, she owns and runs a horse farm in northern Baltimore County and is a competition Three-Day Event Rider. Her poems have appeared in The Missouri Review, American Poetry Review, The Journal, Prairie Schooner, Chelsea, Birmingham Poetry Review, Mid-America Review, The Baltimore Review, Nebraska Review, Hayden’s Ferry Review, Poet Lore, Passages North, Whiskey Island Review, Comstock Review, Southern Indiana Review, Maryland Poetry Review, and elsewhere.

About Dark Track:

"Dark Track is a wonderful book. I love how Julia Wendell has found a way to bring together her passion for horses with her passion for poetry. She writes from deep experience and long intimate acquaintance with both worlds. The music in her poems is both sure and inviting and seems to emerge from the very spirits and bodies of the horses she knows and loves so well. Her poems embody a world that few of us know: we have finished Dark Track it is a world we would never want to forget."
—Jim Moore

"These are powerful and direct poems that speak with the force of wisdom and experience."
—Michael Collier