Julia Guez’s essays, interviews, poems and translations have appeared in POETRY, Circumference, PEN Poetry Series, BOMBlog, The Boston Review, The Guardian, Apogee and DIAGRAM. She has been awarded a Fulbright Fellowship, the "Discovery"/ Boston Review Poetry Prize and the John Frederick Nims Memorial Prize in Translation. Guez lives in Brooklyn and on-line @G_U_E_Z ; she is the managing director of Brooklyn-based programming at Teach For America-New York and teaches creative writing at Rutgers.