Julie Babcock

Julie Babcock is a Lecturer and Research Fellow in the Department of English at the University of Michigan. She specializes in poetry and fiction writing, contemporary literature, digital writing, genre studies, and rhetoric. Her teaching includes courses like English 124, 125, 223, 225, 229, and Writing 100, 200, 220, 400, 420, 993.

• PhD from University of Illinois Chicago
• MFA from Purdue University
• BA from University of Cincinnati

Babcock co-founded Public School Poetry: A Literary and Craft Journal and authored poetry collections Rules for Rearrangement (2020, Kithara Book Prize winner) and Autoplay (MG Press, 2014). Her work explores Midwest identity, trauma, and memory through lyrical experimentation.

Notable awards include the 2023 Best Poet of Washtenaw County, 2022 Writers Colony Fellowship, 2019 Kithara Book Prize, and 2012 Vermont Studio Full Fiction Fellowship. She has presented on topics like political poetry and creative writing pedagogy at conferences including AWP and Creative Writing Studies.