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JULIA BLOCH is the author of Letters to Kelly Clarkson (a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award) and Valley Fever, and is the recipient of the Joseph Henry Jackson Literary Award and the William Carlos Williams Prize for poetry. Along with poetry in numerous journals and anthologies, she has published essays and reviews in Journal of Modern Literature, Tripwire, The Volta, and elsewhere. She spent several years as an editor in the Bay Area before earning an MFA in poetry at Mills College and a PhD in English at the University of Pennsylvania, and for two years taught literature at the Bard College Master of Arts Teaching program in Delano, California. In 2011, she returned to Philadelphia to work as associate director of the Kelly Writers House, and in fall 2015 she became director of the Creative Writing program at Penn.