Julia Forster, although
she's only been writing since 1998, won the Derek
Walcott Prize for Creative Writing in 2000 while at
the University of Warwick, England. After graduation,
she went to the University of St. Andrews in
Scotland, where she's currently writing her portfolio
to complete a Masters in Creative Writing and
dreaming of having enough time, space, and money to
complete her novel in New York.
Letters
You found poetry in postmarks. You tore
these finite ink circles from their homebound
envelopes
to be stuffed into filing cabinet drawers in
rigid, faultless, alphabetical order.
I liked the magnetic letters that could create
their own town
and would still make sense upside down or under
the rattling fridge. These could be i and!, u and
n
at the same time, as well as holding up envelopes,
unopened.
