Julie Sumner

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, The Intima, Relief Journal, Fathom Magazine, The Cresset, The Englewood Review of Books, 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. She has an MFA in poetry from Seattle-Pacific University.