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Geula Geurts
b. 1989
Current City, State, Country
Jerusalem, Israel
Birth City, State, Country
Utrecht, The Netherlands
Biography
Geula Geurts is a Dutch-born poet and essayist living in Jerusalem. Her lyric essay, The Beginnings of Fire, was published by CutBank Books (Summer 2021). Her manuscript, Tiny Bones Glowing, was selected as a finalist for the 2021 Wisconsin Poetry Series and was the first runner-up in the 2020 Red Hen Press Benjamin Saltman Award. A Best of the Net nominee, her work has recently appeared in Guesthouse, Spoon River, Indianapolis Review, Pleiades, Salamander, Radar and EcoTheo. She works as a literary agent at the Deborah Harris Agency.
Published Works
Poetry
Like Any Good Daughter (Platypus Press, 2016)
Prose
The Beginnings of Fire (CutBank Books, 2021)
Author Site
Links to Sample Works
Video Reading
Current Title
Literary Agent, Deborah Harris Agency
Education
Bar Ilan University, Shaindy Rudoff Graduate Program in Creative Writing