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Julia B. Levine is the author of Ordinary Psalms (Louisiana State University Press, 2021), and Small Disasters Seen in Sunlight (Louisiana State University Press, 2014), winner of the 2015 Northern California Book Award in Poetry. She is the recipient of first prizes in the 2020 Bellevue Literary Review poetry contest, 2019 Public Poetry Awards, and 2018 Tiferet Poetry Prize. She earned a PhD in clinical psychology from University of California, Berkeley, and an MFA in poetry from Pacific University.