Julie Cooper-Fratrik is the author of three collections of poetry and poetic prose: The Space of Appearances, Breathing Lessons: a remembering,. and Further Lovely Lettuce Lore. Two chapters from her book, Beyond the Objects of Affection (The Space of the Poet in the Space of the World) have been published in Tupelo Quarterly ("Words in Intercourse: wave, The Waves, woman") and in Under the Sun ("Bodies in Intercourse: (Within the Jouisspace)." Her essay, "Crossing Over," appeared in The Leap Years: Women Reflect on Love, Loss, and Change (Beacon Press). She lives with her spouse, conceptual artist Nura Petrov, in Upper Bucks County, PA.