He is the author of several poetry collections, and the editor of an anthology of writing and a book of travel journals.
Julien Poirier was born in 1970 and grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Poirier has published numerous poetry collections,[2] including El Golpe Chileño (Ugly Duckling, 2010),[3] Stained Glass Windows of California (Ugly Duckling, 2012), Way Too West (Bootstrap, 2015) and Out of Print (City Lights).
Poirier is a founding member of the Brooklyn-based non-profit Ugly Duckling Presse Collective.
With Garrett Caples he co-edited Frank Lima's Incidents of Travel in Poetry: New and Selected Poems.