Julie Hensley

Julie Hensley is an Appalachian writer, raised in the mountains of Virginia. She earned an MFA from Arizona State University and is the author of Viable, a collection of poetry, and Landfall: A Ring of Stories. Hensley’s poems and stries have also appeared in dozens of journals, including the Southern Review, Indiana Review, Crab Orchard Review, and Quarterly West. She is a core faculty member of the Bluegrass Writers Studio, the low-residency MFA program at Eastern Kentucky University. She lives in Kentucky with her family. For more information, visit www.juliehensleywriter.com.