Julie Lamb is a poet, globetrotter enthusiast, and sweet tooth explorer. Her appetite for life first sparked when she spent her childhood summers in Quito, Ecuador, eating poppyseed cakes in her grandmother’s wooden house. In the spirit of the intrepid female travelers that came before her, Julie followed her love of food to Tel Aviv, Israel, where she spent over three years writing about the world, from finance to technology.
Before she leapt to the Middle East, she graduated from the University of Louisville with a Bachelor of Arts in English, all while taking every creative writing class she could (eating up words for breakfast like Gregory the goat). Her short story about a feisty parrot bumped its beak into the Anthology of Short Stories by Young Americans, and a sassy poem (based on Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night with a modern twist) can be found bold as Malvolio in The Lumberyard. Julie Lamb’s first play in high school, Vexing Affections, was a winner of Actors Theatre’s Humana Festival of New American Plays, performed at Actors Theatre.
Today, Julie spins content magic at a colorful marketing agency in Louisville, Kentucky. This is Julie Lamb’s first collection of poetry: a lifelong dream you now hold in your hands. She hopes you eat up every word!
Hello, dear reader,
Welcome to my heart’s innermost pages. Take the key and unlock the crackles if you dare.
Here, I divulge where the deepest roots touch souls, whispering of generations past; like secret diamonds carried; the passion of survivors.
Discover within wild tales about love’s dimensions lightning-devoured, curdled, and kintsugi’d right up.
Find where the cockroaches scatter around atom bombs dropped on Wall Street, exploding behind peeling white walls.
Dive into the siren pulse of darkness; where you might just hear hope is the loudest violet magnet of all pulling towards the blaze.
How do you get through? Guzzle it like a star wide open. Guzzle it like truth; sparking temporary in time and place. These are The Ones That Made Their Mark.