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Julie E. Bloemeke’s first full-length collection of poetry, Slide to Unlock, debuted with Sibling Rivalry Press in March 2020. Chosen by Stephen Dunn as finalist for the 2016 May Swenson Poetry Award through University Press of Colorado and Utah State University Press, Slide to Unlock has also been a semifinalist in numerous book prizes including the Crab Orchard Review First Book Award and the Crab Orchard Review Poetry Open Competition with Southern Illinois University Press; the Washington Prize through Word Works; and the Hudson Prize through Black Lawrence Press.
A fellow at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Bloemeke earned her MA in American Literature from the University of South Carolina–where she was a Ramsaur Fellow–and her MFA in poetry from the Bennington Writing Seminars. Her poetry has appeared in numerous literary magazines including Prairie Schooner, Gulf Coast, Cortland Review, Pine Hills Review, Crab Orchard Review, Muse/A Journal, Chautauqua Literary Journal, Poet Lore, and others. Her poems have been published or are forthcoming in a number of anthologies including: Mother Mary Comes to Me: A Popculture Poetry Anthology, The Pandemic Poetry Anthology, A Constellation of Kisses, Nasty Women Poets: An Unapologetic Anthology of Subversive Verse, The Great Gatsby Anthology, The Sense of the Midlands, The Nancy Drew Anthology, The Southern Poetry Anthology Volume V: Georgia and the My Cruel Invention Anthology, among others.
In addition to serving as a literary docent with the Toledo Museum of Art, she was the inaugural Poetry Director for the Milton Literary Festival in Georgia in 2016. She was also the 2020 judge for the Robert V. Morea III Poetry Prize through Georgia State University and served as the 2021 judge for the Bryon Herbert Reece International Poetry Award. She recently co-edited a tribute issue of Limp Wrist for Dolly Parton's 75th birthday in January 202 and is a proud native of Toledo, Ohio.
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Jane Hirshfield, named “among the modern masters” by The Washington Post, is one of the leading voices for the environment in American poetry. She is the author of nine poetry books, including Ledger (Knopf, 2020); The Beauty, long-listed for the 2015 National Book Award; and Given Sugar, Given Salt,, finalist for the 2001 National Book Critics Circle Award. She is also the author of two now-classic books of essays, Nine Gates: Entering the Mind of Poetry and Ten Windows: How Great Poems Transform The World, and is editor/co-translator of four books collecting the work of world poets from the deep past, including the anthology Women in Praise of the Sacred: 43 Centuries of Spiritual Poetry by Women.
Hirshfield's honors include fellowships from the Guggenheim and Rockefeller foundations, the National Endowment for the Arts, and The Academy of American Poets; the California Book Award and Poetry Center Book Award; and best book of the year selections from The Washington Post, San Francisco Chronicle, and England’s Financial Times. A former chancellor of The Academy of American Poets, Hirshfield’s poems appear in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, The Washington Post, The Times Literary Supplement, The Guardian, The New York Review of Books, Poetry, and ten editions of The Best American Poetry.
In April 2017 she founded, in conjunction with the first March for Science, Poets For Science, a digital and traveling project and exhibition housed at the Wick Poetry Center at Kent State, Ohio. While never a full time academic, she has taught at Stanford, UC Berkeley, Bennington’s MFA Seminars, and numerous writing conferences, and has also guest-edited volumes of The Pushcart Prize Anthology, Ploughshares, and The Alaska Quarterly Review. Her work has been translated into over a dozen languages. In 2019, she was elected to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences.