Julia Koets is the author of The Rib Joint: A Memoir in Essays, PINE, and Hold Like Owls. She is the winner of the 2017 Red Hen Press Nonfiction Book Award judged by Mark Doty, the 2019 Michael Waters Poetry Prize, and the 2011 South Carolina Poetry Book Prize judged by National Book Award Winner Nikky Finney. Julia's essays and poems have been published or are forthcoming in literary journals including Creative Nonfiction, Indiana Review, Nimrod, The Los Angeles Review, Carolina Quarterly, and Portland Review. She earned her M.F.A. at the University of South Carolina and her Ph.D. in Creative Writing and Literature at the University of Cincinnati. She is an assistant professor of creative nonfiction at the University of South Florida in Tampa.

Other poems by Julia Koets in Verse Daily:
July 16, 2021:   "Eros as asteroid" "When I look at love through a telescope..."
May 15, 2012:   "Paper Birds" "Moths must tire of sleeping near the ceiling...."

Books by Julia Koets:

Other poems on the web by Julia Koets:
Six poems Julia Koets's Website.

Julia Koets on Twitter.

About Pine:

"In Pine, Julia Koets has created a new queer catalog, a field guide for those of us who couldn't claim a vocabulary in the closets of our youth, much less rely on any kind of compass. In doing so, this moving collection redeploys, with remarkable candor, the language used against us—sometimes out of our own mouths—and brings memory close enough to reconsider with the intelligence and finesse time affords. Pine reminds me that a queer root is as much about desire as it is about survival, and Koets is a worthy guide in both pursuits."
—Meg Day

"Julia Koets shows us in the sinews of her images how growing up in a small town in the South, while abiding by one's queer heart, requires an imaginative and oft-unsung resourcefulness. These poems stunningly herald the girls 'who lie down in fields, their bicycles / on their sides, too, like horses / asleep in the sun.' In this formally inventive collection, you'll also find an interdisciplinary study of Eros, a string of mostly well-behaved thank-you notes, and a whole antlery of villanelles. Pine is a necessary and erotic record of deviations and a fearless collection."
—Jenny Johnson

"Julia Koets writes villanelles like nobody else. Here's Heraclitus, Ann Cvetkovich, and Sally Ride. Here's an invented form, in 'Vernal Equinox,' that's something like a villanelle caught a ride with a sonnet. Here's a queer Southern love story in the field and by the ocean. I love this book. It's stunning."
—Jillian Weise