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Genre Defying Author Julie Marie Wade

Introduction to Julie Marie Wade. 1:12 min. Interview: Raymond Elman. Post-Production: Luis Alberto González Music: Carmen Cicero. Recorded via ZOOM 5/4/2026, Miami.

JULIE MARIE WADE is the author of 22 volumes of poetry, prose, and hybrid forms, including the new memoir “Other People’s Mothers” (University Press of Florida, 2025). Other recent work includes “Quick Change Artist: Poems” (Anhinga Press, 2025), selected by Octavio Quintanilla as the winner of the 2023 Anhinga Prize in Poetry, “The Latest: 20 Ghazals for 2020” (Small Harbor Editions, 2025), co-authored with Denise Duhamel, “Fisk, By Analogy” (CutBank Prose Chapbook Series, 2025), and the nonfiction novella, “The Mary Years” (Texas Review Press, 2024), selected by Michael Martone as the winner of the 2023 Clay Reynolds Novella Prize. A finalist for the National Poetry Series and a winner of the Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Memoir. Wade is Professor of English & Creative Writing at Florida International University (FIU) in Miami.

— www.juliemariewade.com

The videos below were recorded via Zoom, are organized by Success Factor, and run between 30 seconds and 12 minutes. Click on any video. You must be connected to the Internet to view the videos.

EXPOSURE TO BROAD INFLUENCES: 2:19 min.

Where did you grow up, and what was your first awareness of art of any discipline?

INSIGHT & INSPIRATION: 0:35 sec.

My wife lived on Green Lake in Seattle.

COMPULSION: 5:48 min.

When did you first realize that you wanted to be a writer?

SEIZES OPPORTUNITIES: 9:51 min.

Where did you go to school, and what did you learn that still informs you today?

INSIGHT & INSPIRATION: 4:32 min.

36 year-old singer-songwriter David Archuleta has already written two memoirs about growing up in the Mormon church and realizing he is gay. Your experience of religious suppression sounds similar.

COMMUNITY VALUES: 11:22 min.