Julie Vick

About Julie Vick:

Julie Vick has been an Instructor with the department since 2007. She frequently teaches business writing and special topics courses and is a faculty advisor for English. 

Area of Expertise: Professional writing, rhetoric and composition, freelance writing, and humor writing.

Courses Taught: Business Writing, Special Topics in Writing: Humor, Core Composition I and 2, Argumentation and Logic, and Technical Writing.

Publications

Book:

• Babies Don't Make Small Talk (So Why Should I?), Countryman Press 2021

Satire and Short Article Publications:

• “The Best Animals to Watch Your Baby, According to Hemingway” New Yorker Digital. July 2022
• “How to Pick Out a Good Melon.” New Yorker Digital. July 2021
• “Caitlin Kunkel Wants to Turn You On—Equitably” The Millions. March 2019  
• “Thank You for Calling the Writer Envy Helpline” Electric Literature. July 2019
• “Indigenous Writers Deserve More Credit for Being Hilarious: An Interview with Tiffany Midge.” Electric Literature. December 2019 
• “William Carlos Williams Poems for Introverts” McSweeney’s Internet Tendency. September 2018 
• “The Life-Changing Magic of Organizing Your Organizational Supplies” Real Simple. July 2018 issue.  
• "Before Bingeing Hallmark Holiday Movies, Please Agree to These Terms" McSweeney's Internet Tendency. December 2018
• “Rumpus Funny Women #157: Habits of Less Successful Writers.” The Rumpus. November 2017. 
• “Math Word Problems for Today’s Parents” Parents magazine. May 2017.
• “With a flexible work schedule, working out how much child care coverage to get.” The Washington Post “On Parenting” Blog. October 2017  
• “How to See Colorado Through an Author’s eyes.” AFAR digital. July 2016 
• “The Writer’s Index” Brevity magazine’s blog. June 2016. 
• “Postcard from the Suburbs.” 5280: The Denver Magazine. December 2015 issue. 
• “This Christmas Letter Gets Rave Reviews.” The Christian Science Monitor. 2005. 
• Various articles for the entertainment section. The Boulder Daily Camera. 1998