Laura Julier served for ten years as editor of Fourth Genre. Her memoir, Off Izaak Walton Road: Grace that Comes from Loss, won the River Teeth Literary Book Award and is published by University of New Mexico Press, 2025. She also coedited (with Doug Hesse) the collection Nonfiction, the Teaching of Writing, and the Influence of Richard Lloyd-Jones. She lives in Iowa City with her spouse, the writer Kate Carroll de Gutes, and is on staff at the University of Iowa Hospitals as a chaplain.