Poet Julie Bruck on Monkey Ranch
Julie Bruck is the author of three collections of poems from Brick Books, Monkey Ranch (2012)
The End of Travel (1999), and The Woman Downstairs (1993).\xa0 Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, Ms,\xa0 Ploughshares, The Walrus, The Malahat Review, Valparaiso Poetry Review, Maisonneuve, Literary Mama, and elsewhere.
Montreal-born and raised, Julie has taught at several colleges and universities in Canada, and has been a resident faculty member at The Frost Place in Franconia, New Hampshire. Since 2005, she has taught poetry workshops for The Writing Salon in San Francisco\u2019s Mission district, and tutored students at The University of San Francisco.
Awards and fellowships include The A.M. Klein Award for Poetry, two Pushcart Prize nominations, two Gold Canadian National Magazine Awards and, for Monkey Ranch, Canada\u2019s 2012 Governor General\u2019s Literary Award for Poetry, which we talk about here.