Julia Kolchinsky
Julia Kolchinsky is the author of four poetry collections: 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). With Luisa Muradyan, she has written When the World Stopped Touching, a collaborative book of poems structured as letters, forthcoming from YesYes in 2025. Julia's work has appeared in POETRY, Prairie Schooner, Ploughshares, and American Poetry Review. Her recent awards include Hunger Mountain's Ruth Stone Poetry Prize, Michigan Quarterly Review's Prize in Creative Nonfiction, and a Sustainable Arts Foundation Grant. She is Assistant Professor of English and Creative Writing at Denison University. Find her at www.juliakolchinskydasbach.com.