Julie Bruck is a Canadian-American poet who won the Governor General's Award for English-language poetry in 2012 for her collection Monkey Ranch.
[1] The Woman Downstairs won the A.M. Klein Prize for Poetry from the Quebec Writers' Federation Awards in 1994.
[2] Bruck has also won a Sustainable Arts Foundation Promise Award and has also been nominated twice for the Pushcart Prize.
She has received grants from the Canada Council for the Arts, and a Catherine Boettcher Fellowship from the MacDowell Colony.
Since 2005, she has been teaching poetry workshops for The Writing Salon in San Francisco's Mission district.