Juliet has A BFA degree in Creative Writing (with a minor in Popular Culture), but is no longer based in academe.

She is currently based in Ohio where she lives with her husband, Bananas Foster, and their Boston Terrier son, Sockeye Cook-Foster.  Juliet does not have a hyphenated last name, but her dog does.

Most of her free time is devoted to her creative projects, especially poetry and Blood Pudding Press.

Contemporary poetry is her primary passion, but other interests include blogging, reading, art (especially abstract expressionist painting, mixed media, conceptual art, and performance art), third wave feminism, knee socks, vintage waitress dresses, paper products, Transcendental Meditation, the paranormal, David Lynch films, documentaries (especially about artists) contempo. lit. crit., footnotes, pomo, the gurlesque, kinky hybrids, unusual juxtapositions, and variants of horror and erotica that are not too genre-esque.