Julia Story's childhood in Indiana was full of pets, grass, books, and Presbyterians. She earned graduate degrees in creative writing from the University of New Hampshire and Indiana University and has worked as a high-school teacher, short order cook, secretary, store clerk, waitress, and professor. Her poetry was nominated for a Pushcart Prize and has appeared in Octopus, Ploughshares, Sentence, The Iowa Review, and other magazines. She lives in Somerville, Massachusetts.

Other poems by Julia Story in Verse Daily:

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Other poems on the web by Post Moxie:
Two poems
Five poems

About Post Moxie:

"Poems that think this carefully and provocatively about themselves are scarce. But that's no reason to read a person's poems. The misery and the total enchantment of being alive, of being a complex person, mysterious even to oneself, and of feeling like a cliché, of drawing from art and despising art, of thinking simultaneously ‘fuck this’ and ‘bring me more’—that's what got put into this book, and that's what we get out of it."
—Dan Chiasson