Julia Lisella’s poetry books include Always (2014), Terrain (2007), and Love Song Hiroshima (2004). Her poems have been widely anthologized and have appeared in Alaska Quarterly Review, Ocean State Review, Prairie Schooner, Nimrod, Exit 7, Salamander, Voices In Italian Americana and many others. She is also a scholar of women’s writing and recently co-edited a collection of essays, Modernist Women Writers and American Social Engagement. She is professor of English at Regis College and co-curates the Italian American Writers Association Literary Reading Series in Boston at I Am Books in Boston’s North end.