Julie Agoos is the author of Above the Land, selected by James Merrill for the Yale Series of Younger Poets Prize; Calendar Year; Property; and Echo System. Her poems have appeared widely in journals and magazines, including The New Yorker, The Yale Review, The Partisan Review, Ploughshares, and Antaeus, and work from Stateless, a new manuscript in verse and prose, has recently appeared in The Brooklyn Rail and The Big Other. Recipient of a Briggs Copeland Fellowship and The Lloyd McKim Garrison Poetry Prize from Harvard University, the Grolier Poetry Prize, The Towson State University Prize for Literature, and The Frost Place Residency Fellowship, she is Professor Emerita of English at Brooklyn College/CUNY, where she taught literature and creative writing for 30 years, and from 2010- 2024 coordinated the MFA Program in Poetry.
