Geula Geurts

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)

Links to Sample Works

• Radar Poetry, “Tzimtzum”
• Blood Orange Review, “Ten Months Postpartum”
• Juked, “Amnio”

Subject Matter

Art & Ekphrasis, Childhood, Family, Gender Violence, Grief & Elegy, Intergenerational Trauma, Jewish Mysticism, Loss, Love, Marriage, Midrash, Misogyny, Motherhood/Fertility, Mythology, Narrative, Parenting, Sex, Sexuality, Torah, Trauma, Feminism, Mental Illness.