Jeanne Julian

Jeanne Julian is the author of the full-length collection Like the O in Hope (The Poetry Box, 2019) as well as two chapbooks: Blossom and Loss (Longleaf Press) and Relic and Myth (Prolific Press). Her poems appear in Prairie Wolf Press Review, Poetry Quarterly, High Desert Journal, Bacopa Literary Review, Kakalak, Gyroscope, The Kleksograph, The RavensPerch, Twelve Mile Review, and other journals, as well as in several anthologies. Her work was longlisted in the Belfast Poetry Festival's Maine Postmark Contest (2023) and has won awards from Reed Magazine (Edwin Markham Prize, 2019), The Comstock Review, Naugatuck River Review, and the North Carolina Poetry Society. She serves on the board of the Maine Poets' Society, and regularly writes reviews of recently-published poetry books for The Main Street Rag.

Jeanne grew up in Ohio, graduated from Allegheny College, and earned an MFA in fiction from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Her 27-year career in media relations and marketing for higher education (at Westfield State University) honed her skills in nonfiction and editing. She lives in South Portland.