Julia Kolchinsky is the author of the poetry collections PARALLAX (University of Arkansas Press, 2025), 40 WEEKS (YesYes Books, 2023), Don’t Touch the Bones (Lost Horse Press, 2020), and The Many Names for Mother (Kent State University Press, 2019). Her recent awards include Hunger Mountain Review’s Ruth Stone Poetry Prize, Michigan Quarterly Review’s James A. Winn Prize in Nonfiction, and a Sustainable Arts Foundation Grant. She is assistant professor of English and creative writing at Denison University.