Julia Johnson is the author of the poetry collections Subsidence (Groundhog Poetry Press, 2016), The Falling Horse (Factory Hollow Press, 2012), and Naming the Afternoon, (LSU Press, 2002), which won the Fellowship of Southern Writers George Garrett New Writing Award. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Tin House, Cincinnati Review, Poetry International, The Southern Poetry Anthology, Conduit, Smartish Pace, and numerous other journals and anthologies. Johnson is Professor of English at the University of Kentucky, where she founded and directed the MFA in Creative Writing Program.