Kane, Julie

A native of Boston and longtime resident of Louisiana, Julie Kane was the 2011-2013 Louisiana Poet Laureate. She teaches at Northwestern State University in Natchitoches. Awards for her poetry include the Donald Justice Poetry Prize, National Poetry Series selection, a Fulbright Scholarship in Creative Writing/American Studies, the Open Poetry International Sonnet Award, an Academy of American Poets Prize, a Glenna Luschei Prairie Schooner Poetry Prize, first prize in the Mademoiselle Magazine College Poetry Competition, and the George Bennett Fellowship in Writing at Phillips Exeter Academy.