Julie Bruck

Julie Bruck is a Canadian-American poet who won the Governor General's Award for English-language poetry in 2012 for her collection ''Monkey Ranch''. She has published two previous collections, ''The Woman Downstairs'' (1993) and ''The End of Travel'' (1999). ''The Woman Downstairs'' won the A.M. Klein Prize for Poetry from the Quebec Writers' Federation Awards in 1994. She has also won two National Magazine Awards for poetry published in Canadian literary magazines. Bruck has also won a Sustainable Arts Foundation Promise Award and has also been nominated twice for the Pushcart Prize. She has received grants from the Canada Council for the Arts, and a Catherine Boettcher Fellowship from the MacDowell Colony. Provided by Wikipedia