Julie Kane is a former Louisiana Poet Laureate. She is a former Fulbright Scholar and a Professor of English at Northwestern State University in Natchitoches, Louisiana.
Author's website: https://www.juliekanepoet.com/
Julie Kane was the Louisiana Poet Laureate from 2011 to 2013. Her two most recent poetry collections are Jazz Funeral, which won the Donald Justice Poetry Prize, and Rhythm & Booze, a National Poetry Series winner and Poets’ Prize finalist. She teaches at Northwestern State University in Natchitoches.