Julia B. Levine is the author of five poetry collections, including Ordinary Psalms (2021), which earned a Nautilus Award, as well as Small Disasters Seen in Sunlight, winner of the 2015 Northern California Book Award in Poetry. She serves as Poet Laureate for the City of Davis and was awarded a 2022 American Academy of Poetry Poet Laureate Fellowship related to climate change and building resiliency in teenagers through poetry, science, and technology.