Julie Farkas is an educator and writer working on a project that has taken her 10 years to complete. Because she primarily identifies as a poet, she always works on prose and poetry, simultaneously, and she says the work and language always feed off of and into each other. Her work has been published in literary magazines such as Hanging Loose, Painted Bride Quarterly, and forthcoming, in Forklift, Ohio. She received her Master of Arts in Education/Teaching at Teachers College Columbia University, her Master of Fine Arts in Poetry at Vermont College of Fine Arts, and is a Children's Literature Fellow with Stony Brook University.