NHBF Author: Julia Thacker

Julia Thacker’s debut collection To Wildness was chosen for the 19th annual Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize by the renowned poet Paul Muldoon. Also a finalist in The National Poetry Series, the book was published in the US and the UK by The Waywiser Press in 2025. 

In her enthusiastic endorsement, Joan Houlihan, author of It Isn’t a Ghost if it Doesn’t Live in Your Chest, says, “Teeming with image, sensation and sound, the poems in To Wildness tumble us into a glorious exuberance of catalog and character, rural landscape and dark imaginings. What a rich and thrilling collection.” These poems have appeared in Bennington Review, Gulf Coast, The Massachusetts Review, Poetry International and other journals. Twice a fellow of the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Julia has also received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Radcliffe Institute. She has taught creative writing at Tufts University, the Radcliffe Seminars and as poet-in-residence in public schools throughout Massachusetts. In 2024, she was an Edith Wharton Writer-in-Residence at The Mount. She lives in Arlington, Massachusetts.

This author is scheduled to appear at the NH Book Festival which will be held at the Capitol Center for the Arts & NHBF Festival Village on South Main Street in Concord, NH on October 3-4, 2025.