Jeanne Julian is the author of one full-length collection and two chapbooks. Her poems have won awards from Reed Magazine, The Comstock Review, Naugatuck River Review, and Maine Poets Society. She's been published in Hole in the Head Review, Gyroscope Review, MacQueen's Quinterly, Panoply, Poetry Quarterly, and other journals and anthologies.  Jeanne also regularly reviews poetry books for The Main Street Rag. Following a 27-year career in media relations and marketing at Westfield State College (now University), she moved to North Carolina, where she co-coordinated Carteret Writers and the former Nexus Poets of New Bern, NC, which hosted a monthly poetry open mic and sponsored an annual contest. She was a featured reader at the 12th annual Carolina Mountains Literary Festival. Now living in Maine, Jeanne serves on the board of the Maine Poets Society and is a member of Maine Writers and Publishers Alliance. Jeanne graduated from Allegheny College in Pennsylvania before entering the MFA program at UMass Amherst.