In her former life as a professor of medieval and early modern English literature and creative writing, Julie Chappell published six books of scholarship, including the monograph Perilous Passages: The Book of Margery Kempe, 1534-1934 (Palgrave 2013) and the collection of scholarly essays, Bad Girls and Transgressive Women in Popular Television, Fiction, and Film (Palgrave 2017) co-edited with Dr. Mallory Young. She also read her creative works widely in a variety of venues in California, Kansas, Texas, and Oklahoma, among other locations, winning the Grand Slam Poetry Prize in Lawrence, Kansas in 1994. Her poetry and prose have appeared in several anthologies and journals including Revival: Spoken Word from Lollapalooza 94; Agave: A Celebration of Tequila in Story, Song, Poetry, Essay, and Graphic Art; Elegant Rage: A Poetic Tribute to Woody Guthrie; The Call of the Chupacabra; Malpaïs Review; Voices de la Luna; Concho River Review; Stone Renga; Speak Your Mind: Woody Guthrie Poets Celebrate Freedom of Speech 2019, Poems of Protest & Resistance; and Bull Buffalo and Indian Paintbrush (The Poetry of Oklahoma). Her first collection of short fiction, Homecoming and Other Mythic Tales, was published by Fine Dog Press in 2021. She has two other collections of original poetry - Faultlines: One Woman's Shifting Boundaries (Village Books Press, 2013) and Mad Habits of a Life (Lamar University Literary Press, 2019) which was nominated for the Paterson Poetry Prize in 2020. As I Pirouette Away is her third collection of original poetry.
