Julianna Baggott

Biography

Julianna Baggott is the author of three novels: Girl Talk, The Miss America Family and The Madam, as well as a book of poems, This Country of Mothers. Her collaboration with Steve Almond, Which Brings Me to You: A Novel in Confessions, was published by Algonquin. Her stories and poems have appeared in numerous publications, including Best American Poetry 2000, Triquarterly, Poetry, and read on NPR’s Talk of the Nation.

http://www.juliannabaggott.com/

See Work

POETRY / Winter 2006

Camille Claudel Does Not Want to See the Baby

By Julianna Baggott
POETRY / Winter 2006

Camille Claudel Refuses to Sculpt Clay that Sister Saint Hildafonse Has Given to Her at the Asylum

By Julianna Baggott
POETRY / Winter 2006

Camille Claudel Bathing in the Lake Near Chateau D’Islette

By Julianna Baggott
POETRY / Spring 2004

Lori Schappell, a Conjoined Twin, Addresses the Kmart Cashier Who Eyes Her with Too Much Sympathy

By Julianna Baggott

You don’t know the forest
of two minds bound by weeds
grown from one to the other,

POETRY / Spring 2004

Dear Critic,

By Julianna Baggott

This pain is so familiar
(we were all children once)
I let it ride my back. I offer it in,

Spring 2001

My Cousin Attempts Suicide In Gander Hill Prison

By Julianna Baggott
Spring 2001

My Mother’s National Geographics

By Julianna Baggott