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Julia Knobloch
b. 1973
Current City, State, Country
Los Angeles, California, USA
Birth City, State, Country
Mainz, Germany
Biography
Julia Knobloch is a poet, rabbi-in-training, and editor. A former documentary filmmaker, she is the author of two collections of poetry and was awarded a 2021 AJU Word Grant Bruce Geller Memorial Prize for her poetry community building and retreat facilitating projects. A former Brooklyn Poets Fellow, she is based in Los Angeles but lives, studies, and writes in Jerusalem during the academic year 2022-23.
Published Works
Book of Failed Salvation (Chapbook; Ben Yehuda Press, 2021)
Do Not Return (Broadstone Books, 2019)
Author Site
Links to Sample Works
Video Reading
Current Title
Poetry Editor for the Jewish Poetry Project / Ben Yehuda Press
Education
Rabbinic Ordination (Ziegler, expected 2025)
Graduate Degree in Philosophy and Romance Languages (European Portuguese and French) from Heidelberg University, Germany