June is past and our event was great–but we accidentally deleted it from our website. So for posterity’s sake, thanks to Julie Sumner for being our feature, to Terry Corrigan for some live music, and to all of you who joined us. Here’s our July event.
B&W image by Beverly Moore; color by Kory Wells
About our feature
Julie Sumner is a writer who has worked as a critical care nurse, liver transplant coordinator, and massage therapist.
She now teaches creative writing, focusing on reading poetry and writing as ways to develop resilience, particularly for healthcare workers and people with chronic illnesses.
Her poems and book reviews have appeared in Pine Mountain Sand & Gravel, Delta Poetry Review, Relief Journal, and elsewhere. Her work is also featured in two Writing the Land anthologies: Foodways and Social Justice and Streamlines.
Her chapbook, Meridian, was chosen by poet Jane Hirshfield as the winner of the 2023 con/verge/nces Prize from Wildhouse Publishing. Julie has an MFA in poetry from Seattle-Pacific University.