Julie Babcock is the author of Rules for Rearrangement, winner of the 2019 Kithara Book Award from Glass Lyre Press, and Autoplay. Her work explores being and becoming after sudden loss and rapid change and draws on her experience as a young, widowed mother, who is no longer young nor widowed. Her current work dismantles/reimagines received stories that uphold oppressive systems. She has a novel out on query and an in-progress poetry collection inspired, in part, by medieval bestiaries. Her poetry and fiction appear in journals and anthologies including The Rumpus, The Journal, and New Poetry from the Midwest. She is a co-founding editor for Public School Poetry, and teaches writing in an interdisciplinary program at University of Michigan in a building she gratefully shares with a family of Peregrine falcons.