Julie Lambert is a nonfiction writer, poet, and women’s health and wellness activist, currently working on her debut memoir, Shed 1,000 Bodies. For twenty years she has worked with organizations and individuals whose goals are to improve women’s and children’s lives through education, health and wellness. She’s studied creative nonfiction and poetry with some of the most well-known and respected writers working in these genres, including a memoir master class with Beth Kephart and a poetry intensive with Patricia Smith in November, 2022. She was also awarded a fellowship from the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts in 2022. She is a graduate of The Kenyon Review Writers Workshop 2021 with T. Kira Madden, and The Writer’s Hotel 2019 with Meghan Daum. The Illinois Arts Council Agency awarded her an Individual Artist Support grant of $1,500 in 2019, and she’s been an invited storyteller at the KGB Bar in NYC, and the de Maat Studio, Second City in Chicago. She has a BA in English Language and Literature from Smith College, and a Master’s in English Language and Literature from Loyola University Chicago. Julie lives outside of Chicago with her husband and four children.
“A Weave, A Basket, A Vessel:
Outtakes from a Memoir Master Class”
An Anthology and Teaching Guide / January 2023
A Weave, a Basket, a Vessel offers a rare, behind-the-scenes look at an intensive workshop—the readings, lessons, and prompts that yielded new writing as well as the conversations and questions that bolstered or rearranged ideas about the memoir form. Assembled by award-winning writer and teacher Beth Kephart and illustrated by award-winning artist William Sulit, the book features the work of the following writers: Carolyn Barnabo-Roberts, Judy Bolton-Fasman, Gretchen Cherington, Trish Deveneau, Julie Lambert, Clorisa Phillips, Priscilla Slocum, Allison Taylor, and Lisa Witz.
“Public Service Announcement”
Little Old Lady Comedy / October 2022
“Dear Book, Dear Writer”
BREVITY’S Nonfiction Blog | October 18, 2021
If you could speak to your book, what would you say? What would it reply?
“Mother’s Day”
Hypertext Review Spring/Summer 2020
“Mother’s Day,” a personal essay on pregnancy and postpartum depression, won 2nd place in Hypertext Review’s Spring/Summer 2020 Nonfiction contest and appeared in their Spring/Summer 2020 edition.