Julie Funderburk teaches courses in creative writing, poetry, and first-year writing. She loves to guide students through the processes of creativity and writing, empowering them through the stages that allow for discovery. Through the English Department\u2019s Seelbinder Literary Arts Series, she shapes opportunities for students to learn directly from distinguished visiting writers and scholars.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
She is the author of The Door that Always Opens<\/em> (LSU Press) and Thoughts to Fold into Birds<\/em> (Unicorn Press). Her poems have been anthologized in Verse Daily<\/em> and Best New Poets<\/em> and appear in journals such as The Southern Review<\/em>, Ecotone<\/em>, Pleiades<\/em>, Cave Wall<\/em>, and Ploughshares<\/em>. She has been awarded fellowships from the North Carolina Arts Council and the Sewanee Writers\u2019 Conference and a scholarship from the Bread Loaf Writers\u2019 Conference.<\/p>\n\n\n\n M.F.A., Creative Writing, University of North Carolina, Greensboro Biography Julie Funderburk teaches courses in creative writing, poetry, and first-year writing. She loves to guide students through the processes of creativity and writing, empowering them through the stages that allow for discovery. Through the English Department\u2019s Seelbinder Literary Arts Series, she shapes opportunities for students to learn directly from distinguished visiting writers and scholars. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","class_list":["post-3300","directory","type-directory","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.queens.edu\/artsci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/directory\/3300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.queens.edu\/artsci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/directory"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.queens.edu\/artsci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/directory"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.queens.edu\/artsci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/directory\/3300\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3306,"href":"https:\/\/www.queens.edu\/artsci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/directory\/3300\/revisions\/3306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.queens.edu\/artsci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Education<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
B.A., English, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"