Julie Ann Ward is the City of Norman, Oklahoma’s inaugural Poet Laureate (2022-2026), and translator of Ships of Houston by Nadia Villafuerte (Undiscovered Americas, 2023). She is the author of A Shared Truth: The Theater of Lagartijas Tiradas al Sol (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2019) and founding editor of the open-access educational resource Antología abierta de literatura hispana (Rebus Community Press, 2017). Her literary work has appeared in Latin American Literature Today, Nimrod, Postscript Magazine, and World Literature Today. Ward has a PhD in Hispanic Languages and Literatures from the University of California, Berkeley and is a member of the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma.
