Julia B. Levine’s awards for her work include the Northern California Book Award in Poetry for Small Disasters Seen in Sunlight, (LSU press, 2014), and first prizes in the 2019 Bellevue Literary Review, 2019 Public Poetry Awards, and the 2018 Tiferet Poetry Prize. Her fifth collection, Ordinary Psalms, will be published in March, 2021 from LSU press. She attended the Community of Writers in Poetry in 1995. She lives and works in Davis, California.