Julia Cohen is the author of COLLATERAL LIGHT (Brooklyn Arts Press, 2013). Her first full-length book, TRIGGERMOON TRIGGERMOON (Black Lawrence Press), was published in 2010, and her third collection, I Was Not Born, will be released by Noemi Press in 2014. Her poems and lyric essays appear in such journals as jubilat, New American Writing, Kenyon Review Online, Colorado Review, DIAGRAM, and Black Warrior Review. She teaches and lives in Chicago.