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2025 Louisiana Writer Award recipient Julie Kane is a native of Boston, Massachusetts, and served as Louisiana Poet Laureate from 2011-2013. She is Professor Emerita of English at Northwestern State University in Natchitoches, Louisiana. She is the author of Naked Ladies, Jazz Funeral, Body and Soul, and Mothers of Ireland.
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Diving Into Nature: An Eco-Poetry Anthology of Louisiana