About

Julia H. Fonte lives and writes at the edge of Vermont woods. Two of her poems were selected as finalists in the 2025 New England Poetry Club E. E. Cummings Prize and the 2025 Vermont Writer’s Prize; two were named as Honorable Mentions in the 2025 Touchstone Ekphrastic Poetry Contest and the 2025 HEART Poetry Award. Her work has also appeared in Steam Ticket, The Mountain Troubadour, Stone Poetry Quarterly, The Milk House and Braided Way. Julia is a retired psychiatric and hospice nurse. She co-curated an Ekphrastic Show, at Stone Valley Arts, June-August 2026, in which poets and artists responded to each other’s work.

Hi Readers,
Thanks so much for dropping in. I hope you settle in and stay a little while, maybe find a poem or two you like on the Poems page, and let me know your thoughts on the Contact page. Thought I’d add a little more than what appears in my professional bio. I began writing poetry after I retired. Just like that. It surprised me as did the roads it began taking me on. It also made me realize we can follow dreams at any age, and I would love for seniors to believe that passion is ageless. When not writing (which I do every day), I preserve wildflowers in three-dimensional form; dry organic herbs; and interact (from their preferred distance) with a family of wild ravens. My favorite thing is spending time with family, my second is writing.