4th Annual Annette Allen Poetry Prize Judge, Julia Johnson
Julia Johnson is the author of the poetry collections Subsidence (Groundhog Poetry Press, 2016), The Falling Horse (Factory Hollow Press, 2012), and Naming the Afternoon, (LSU Press, 2002), which won the Fellowship of Southern Writers George Garrett New Writing Award. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Tin House, Cincinnati Review, Poetry International, The Southern Poetry Anthology, Conduit, Smartish Pace, and numerous other journals and anthologies. Johnson is Professor of English at the University of Kentucky, where she founded and directed the MFA in Creative Writing Program.
About the Annette Allen Poetry Prize: Established in 2021, The Annette Allen Poetry Prize (AAPP) honors the late Dr. Annette Allen. Allen was instrumental in founding the Humanities PhD Program at the University of Louisville in 2002 and was a beloved mentor who advised numerous graduate theses and dissertations in many fields, most notably in creative writing.
A poet as well as an academic, Dr. Allen published widely in poetry anthologies and journals and authored three books of poems. Allen’s highly interdisciplinary poetry, which frequently engaged the arts and humanities, serves as inspiration for this award.
The AAPP is sponsored by The Louisville Review, a national literary magazine in continuous print publication since 1976. Institutional partners at The University of Louisville include The Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture, the Writing Center, and the Women’s Center.
Committee: Flora K. Schildknecht - Chair, Lynda Mercer - Director of Development and Communications, Robert Eric Shoemaker - Advisor
