Punk Rock and Science Fiction

Julie River is a long-time slam poet, an award-winning journalist, and a personal enemy of Ronnie Radke. Julie was born in Neptune, New Jersey, but she grew up in the great state of Rhode Island. She graduated from Emerson College with a double major in Film and English, then returned to Emerson for a Master’s degree in Media Studies. Julie River started her slam journey at 17 when a friend brought her to a poetry slam and Julie said to herself, “Hey, I can do this.” Since that time, Julie has been on 10 poetry slam teams in three different cities: Providence, RI; Worcester, MA; and Denver, CO. In each of those three cities, she has been the city slam champion at least once. She also represented the Denver Mercury Cafe at the 2011 Individual World Poetry Slam in Cleveland and served as co-slammaster of the Denver Mercury Cafe Slam for a time in the 2010s. Julie began her career as a journalist in 2016 when she started writing music reviews for Punknews.org, but when editor Jeff Sorley left Punknews to start ThatsGoodEnoughForMe.com, Julie left with him to help him build the new site.