Julia Guez is a writer and translator based in the city of Houston. The Certain Body (Four Way Books, 2022) is her second collection of poetry, written while she was recovering from COVID in the spring of 2020. Guez holds degrees from Rice and Columbia. To date, she has received a handful of recognitions for her work, including the Discovery / Boston Review Poetry Prize, a Fulbright Fellowship, an Inprint/Restrepo Americas Translation Fellowship and a translation fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. Her work has appeared in POETRY, The Guardian, BOMB, Kenyon Review and The Brooklyn Rail. 

For the last decade, she has worked with Teach For America, New York; Guez has taught creative writing at NYU and Rutgers and in workshops across the country. With her wife, Elizabeth, she has three sons. More information on new writing and events can be found online at www.juliaguez.net