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, Verse Virtual and Braided Way. Julia is a retired psychiatric and hospice nurse who believes passion is ageless. She is co-curator of a poet/artist Ekphrastic Collaboration Show opening June 27, 2026, at Stone Valley Arts.

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. 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 has no age limit. 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.