Julie Kane

Julie Kane is the author of five books of poetry: Mothers of Ireland (LSU Press, 2020); Paper Bullets (White Violet Press, 2014); Jazz Funeral, winner of the Donald Justice Poetry Prize (Story Line Press, 2009; second edition forthcoming from Red Hen Press); Rhythm & Booze, winner of the National Poetry Series and finalist for the Poets’ Prize (University of Illinois Press, 2003); and Body and Soul (Pirogue, 1987). She has also co-edited, with Grace Bauer, Nasty Women Poets: An Unapologetic Anthology of Subversive Verse (Lost Horse Press, 2017) and Umpteen Ways of Looking at a Possum: Critical and Creative Responses to Everette Maddox (Xavier Review Press, 2006), and with H.L. Hix, Terribly in Love: Selected Poems by Tautvyda Marcinkevičiūtė (Lost Horse Press, 2018). The literary nonfiction memoir she co-authored with Kiem Do, Counterpart: A South Vietnamese Naval Officer’s War (Naval Institute Press, 1998), became a History Book Club featured alternate selection.

Formerly the George Bennett Fellow in Writing at Phillips Exeter Academy, New Orleans Writer in Residence at Tulane University, a Fulbright Scholar to Lithuania, a National Book Award in Poetry juror, and Louisiana Poet Laureate 2011-2013, she currently teaches in the low-residency poetry MFA program at Western Colorado University and is Professor Emeritus of English at Northwestern State University of Louisiana.