34 Years of Music, Poetry, Prose & Praise
Julia Meylor lives in Groton, where she is retired from careers as a news editor and reporter for a daily newspaper in New Jersey, a senior corporate communications manager in Rhode Island, and a high school English and journalism teacher in Massachusetts. She was the winner of the 2026 Connecticut Poetry Award and the 2023-24 Nutmeg Award from the Connecticut Poetry Society. While teaching, she took part in the Rhode Island Writing Project and was selected for a National Institute for the Humanities teacher fellowship.
Her poetry has been published in numerous national and regional literary journals for several decades, including Connecticut River Review, Blue Earth Review, South Dakota Review, and the anthology, Collecting Life: Poets on Objects Known and Imagined (3: A Taos Press). She has a master’s degree in teaching from Rhode Island College and a bachelor’s degree in journalism from Iowa State University.
When she moved to Groton several years ago, one of the first things she did was to attend an Art Cafe Mystic event, and soon after joined the board. Much of her writing is about the emotional geography of place and how our roots shape us throughout our lives. She has two self-published chapbooks and is working on another.