Julie Hensley is the author of Landfall: A Ring of Stories (2016), winner of the Ohio State University Press’s Non/Fiction Collection Prize, and Viable: Poems (2015), and a chapbook, The Language of Horses (2011). An Associate Professor at Eastern Kentucky University and core faculty member in the Bluegrass Writers Studio Low-Res MFA Program, she lives in Richmond, KY, with her husband, the writer R. Dean Johnson, and their two children.