JulieÌýCarr
- Chair, Women and Gender Studies
- Professor
- ENGLISH
Julie Carr is the author of fifteen books of poetry and prose, includingÌýThe Garden,Ìýbook one of the trilogy OverflowÌý(Essay Press and Pamenar Press 2025),ÌýMud, Blood, and Ghosts: Populism, Eugenics, and Spiritualism in the American WestÌý(University of Nebraska Press 2023) andÌýUnderscoreÌý(Omnidawn Books 2024). Earlier books includeÌýClimate,Ìýco-written with Lisa Olstein (Essay Press 2022),ÌýReal Life: An InstallationÌý(Omnidawn Books 2018),ÌýObjects from a Borrowed ConfessionÌý(Ahsahta 2017), andÌýSomeone Shot my BookÌý(University of Michigan Press 2018). In 2023 Omnidawn Books reissued Carr’s 2010 book,100 Notes on Violence.ÌýWith Jeffrey Robinson she is the co-editor ofÌýActive RomanticismÌý(University of Alabama Press 2015). Her co-translations, with Jennifer Pap, of Leslie Kaplan’sÌýExcess-The FactoryÌýandÌýThe Book of Skies,Ìýwere published by Commune Editions and Pamenar Press, respectively. Their translation of Kaplan’s novel, The Criminal, is forthcoming from Nightboat Books. Books two and three ofÌýOverflowÌýwill be published sequentially over the next few years.
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Carr has recently collaborated with dance artists K.J. Holmes, video artist and poet Carolina Ebeid, and musician Ben Roberts. With Tim Roberts she is the co-founder of Counterpath Press, CounterpathGallery, and Counterpath Community Garden in Denver.ÌýShe hosts the podcast Return the Key: Jewish Questions for Everyone.Ìý;Ìý;Ìý