Jules Wood is a queer poet and teacher living in Chicago. She's currently working towards her Phd in English in UIC's Program for Writers. In 2019, she earned an MFA in poetry from the Iowa Writers' Workshop. Jules was the poetry editor of Storyscape Journal from 2017-2020. She is also a graduate of UC Berkeley's English department, where she served as the editor-in-chief of the Berkeley Poetry Review from 2013-2015. Jules's work can be found in Lana Turner Journal, Berkeley Poetry Review, and Nat. Brut, among other publications.
Recent accomplishments include conducting a poetry workshop for fat women and women of size at the Abundia Conference, receiving the Bentley-Buckman Poetry Fellowship to attend Idyllwild Arts, speaking on a panel on intersection feminism at Dust Studios, Los Angeles, and giving a talk about diversity in publishing at the One Pen One Page Symposium. Each year, Jules works as a resident advisor and national adjudicator for the YoungArts organization, of which she is an alum.
Jules performs and produces her own brand of femme-fuckery burlesque under the stage name Catty Wompass. Find her performances in Chicago on Instagram @misscattywompass and the quarterly show she produces in Iowa City @bawdybawdyhaha.
Photo by Suma Jane Dark
Recent accomplishments include conducting a poetry workshop for fat women and women of size at the Abundia Conference, receiving the Bentley-Buckman Poetry Fellowship to attend Idyllwild Arts, speaking on a panel on intersection feminism at Dust Studios, Los Angeles, and giving a talk about diversity in publishing at the One Pen One Page Symposium. Each year, Jules works as a resident advisor and national adjudicator for the YoungArts organization, of which she is an alum.
Jules performs and produces her own brand of femme-fuckery burlesque under the stage name Catty Wompass. Find her performances in Chicago on Instagram @misscattywompass and the quarterly show she produces in Iowa City @bawdybawdyhaha.
Photo by Suma Jane Dark
