Julie Kane's previous collections include Rhythm & Booze, winner of the National Poetry Series; Jazz Funeral, winner of the Donald Justice Poetry Prize; and Mothers of Ireland, winner of the Poetry by the Sea Book Award. Forthcoming in spring 2025 from LSU Press will be Naked Ladies: New & Selected Poems. With Grace Bauer, she co-edited Nasty Women Poets: An Unapologetic Anthology of Subversive Verse, and with H. L. Hix she co-edited Terribly in Love, selected poems in translation from the Lithuanian poet Tautvyda Marcinkevičiūtė. A past Louisiana Poet Laureate, Fulbright Scholar, Best American Poetry selection, George Bennett Fellow in Writing at Phillips Exeter Academy, and New Orleans Writer in Residence at Tulane University, she retired as Professor Emerita of English from Northwestern State University of Louisiana. She currently teaches in the low-residency MFA program at Western Colorado University.