Julie Phillips Brown is a poet, critic, painter, & book artist. She is the author of The Adjacent Possible (forthcoming from Green Writers Press) and the Founding Editor of House Mountain Review. Her poems and essays have appeared or are forthcoming in Borderlands, Columbia Poetry Review, Contemporary Women's Writing, Crab Orchard Review, Denver Quarterly, interim, Jacket2, Nashville Review, Plume, Posit, Tahoma Literary Review, Talisman, Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature, Vinyl, Yemassee, & elsewhere. A native of Philadelphia, she lives in Lexington, Virginia, where she teaches creative writing, studio art, and American literature. Find her @jphillipsbrown & tactualpoiesis.com.