Julia Bird is a poet and poetry programmer. Her poetry collections Hannah and the Monk (2008) and Twenty-four Seven Blossom (2013) were published by Salt Publishing, and the illustrated pamphlet Now You Can Look (2017) by The Emma Press. With Mike Sims, she published the poetry and artist’s book Paper Trail (Blown Rose, 2019) and A Joy Forever: a walk out with John Keats (Paekakariki Press, 2021).