Listen to Julia Levine!

Julia Levine is a poet and therapist who earned her PhD in clinical psychology from The University of California, Berkeley. Her poetry has won numerous national and international awards, including a Discovery Award, The Nation Award, the Pablo Neruda Prize in poetry, and the Anhinga Poetry Prize. She received a bronze medal from ForeWord magazine for her first collection, Practicing for Heaven, and the University of Tampa Poetry prize for her second book, Ask. She has been widely published in literary journals, including Ploughshares, Prairie Schooner, Poetry East, and the Southern Poetry Review. Her latest book, Ditch-tender, was released earlier this year from University of Tampa Press. She has work appearing in several new anthologies, including The Places That Inhabit Us, and The Autumn House Anthology of Contemporary American Poetry.