UIUC Creative Writing

Julie Price has been teaching creative writing (fiction, nonfiction, poetry) and rhetoric at the University of Illinois since 1998. She received her undergraduate degree in advertising from the University of Evansville, and her MFA from Purdue University, where she worked on the editorial staff of the Sycamore Review.

Julie’s poems and essays have appeared in numerous journals, including Literal Latte, Tamaqua, Fish Stories Collective II, dragonfire, Full Circle Journal, Georgia State University Review, Karamu and others. Her poetry has been nominated twice for a Pushcart Prize. Julie has received multiple teaching awards, including the Campus Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching.

Before coming to the U. of I., Julie worked as managing editor of the Indianapolis New Times and later owned a bookstore on Green Street near campus. She also spent time in France where she wrote a monthly column about Parisian pop culture for the now-defunct Octopus. Her cat, Hankie, accompanied her, though he preferred American cat food.