Author of the article

Julia Kolchinsky Dasbach ( www.juliakolchinskydasbach.com) is the author of three poetry collections: 40 WEEKS (YesYes Books, 2023), Don’t Touch the Bones (Lost Horse Press, 2020), and The Many Names for Mother (Kent State University Press, 2019). Her poems have appeared in POETRY, Ploughshares, American Poetry Review, and AGNI, among others. She holds an MFA from the University of Oregon and a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature and Literary Theory from the University of Pennsylvania. Julia is Assistant Professor of English/Creative Writing at Denison University and lives with her family in Columbus, Ohio.