Julie Bruck is a Canadian-American poet, who won the Governor General's Award for English-language poetry in 2012 for her collection Monkey Ranch. She has published two previous collections, The Woman Downstairs (1993) and The End of Travel (1999). The Woman Downstairs won the A.M. Klein Prize for Poetry from the Quebec Writers' Federation Awards in 1994. She has also won two National Magazine Awards for poetry published in Canadian literary magazines. Bruck has also won a Sustainable Arts Foundation Promise Award and has also been nominated twice for the Pushcart Prize. She has received grants from the Canada Council for the Arts, and a Catherine Boettcher Fellowship from MacDowell. Beside publishing books, Bruck has also published in magazines and journals like The New Yorker, Ploughshares, The Walrus, The Malahat Review, and Valparaiso Poetry Review. Her poems have featured in numerous anthologies. She has taught at many colleges and universities in Canada. She is a former resident faculty member at The Frost Place in Franconia, NH. Since 2005, she has been teaching poetry workshops for The Writing Salon in San Francisco’s Mission district. She also teaches at the University of San Francisco.
Julie Bruck
Studios
Chapman
Julie Bruck worked in the Chapman studio.
Chapman Studio was funded by Mrs. Alice Woodrough Chapman in memory of her husband, composer George Alexander Chapman. Symmetrically massed, the building is stuccoed on the exterior with a natural, unpainted cement. Its unusual half-timbered ornament consists of slender, knotty spruce poles painted a dark green color. A central, peak-roofed entrance porch appears on the north side…