About Me

Julie Swarstad Johnson is a poet and writer who lives in Tucson, Arizona. Her first full-length book of poetry, Pennsylvania Furnace, will be published by Unicorn Press in 2019. She is the author of a poetry chapbook, Jumping the Pit (Finishing Line Press, 2015) and has served as Artist in Residence at Gettysburg National Military Park. With Christopher Cokinos, she is the co-editor of Beyond Earth's Edge: The Poetry of Spaceflight, forthcoming from the University of Arizona Press in 2020. She works at the University of Arizona Poetry Center, home to a world-class library collection of contemporary poetry. 

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Listen to interviews with The Seminary Explores and Big Blend Radio. Or read an interview with the Gettysburg Foundation.