Julie Sheehan is a 2008 recipient of a Whiting Writers’ Award and author of two poetry collections, Orient Point, which won the Barnard Women Poets Prize, and Thaw. Her poems have appeared in such publications as The Paris Review, Parnassus, Kenyon Review, Prairie Schooner, Yale Review, The Best American Poetry, and 180 More: Extraordinary Poems for Every Day. Her next collection, Bar Book: Poems & Otherwise, is forthcoming from W.W. Norton.