Meet the Editors of The POM: Julia Marsiglio

Submissions Editor for The POM

Julia Marsiglio is a writer currently located in Montreal. She received a Bachelor of Arts in Spanish Language and Literature from the University of Alberta, a Bachelor of Science in Dietetics from The University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, and a Masters in Human Nutrition from The University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign.

She recognized her love of writing early in life; as a child and teenager, she wrote for and won a number of local poetry and short fiction awards. After completing her Bachelor of Arts, she started writing less as her dietetics career, and then pregnancy and childcare took over more of her time. However, after losing her second pregnancy halfway to term she began to write and share poetry as a way to walk through her grief.

Julia writes poetry, fiction, and editorials. She is currently working on a science fiction novel and her first poetry collection, both of which she hopes will be ready for publication in 2022. She reads eclectically and draws inspiration from writers like Federico Garcia Lorca, Phillip Pullman, Toni Morrison, Michael Ondaatje, Gabriel García Márquez, and Christina Rossetti and from visual artists such as Frida Kahlo and Gustav Klimt.

If you would like to leave a tip to thank Julia for her work in The POM, you are welcome to do so here.