Julie Sumner

Julie Sumner is a poet 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. She completed a Master of Fine Arts in poetry at Seattle Pacific University, a Master of Science in Nursing at Vanderbilt University, and a Bachelor of Arts in English at Birmingham-Southern College. Her work has appeared in Delta Poetry Review, The Intima, Relief Journal, Wondrous Real, Catalpa Magazine, and elsewhere.

Meridian

Meridian is a collection of poems that reflects the poet’s deep and abiding love affair with the natural world. The poems draw on the alchemy that

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