Join Terrain.org editor-in-chief Simmons Buntin as he hosts the winners of the Terrain.org 15th Annual Contests in Poetry, Fiction, and Nonfiction for an online reading: Julia B. Levine, Seth Borgen, and L.I. Henley. The reading will be followed by a Q&A.

Registration for this online event is required. Zoom hosting generously provided by the University of Arizona.

Monday, March 24, 2025
5 p.m. PT / 6 MT / 7 CT / 8 ET

Julia B. Levine’s poetry has won many awards, including a 2021 Nautilus Award for her fifth poetry collection, Ordinary Psalms, as well as the 2015 Northern California Book Award in Poetry for her fourth collection, Small Disasters Seen in Sunlight. Recently she has won s 2024 Pushcart Prize, the 2023 Oran Perry Burke Award from The Southern Review, the 2022 Steve Kowit Poetry Prize, the 2020 Bellevue Literary Review Poetry Award, and a 2022 American Academy of Poetry Poet Laureate Fellowship for her work in building resiliency in teenagers related to climate change through poetry, science, and technology. Her work has appeared in many literary journals, including, Ploughshares, The Southern Review, The Missouri Review, The Nation and Prairie Schooner. She received a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from University of California, Berkeley and an MFA in Poetry from Pacific University.

Seth Borgen’s work has appeared in Story, Water~Stone, Green Mountains Review, and elsewhere. His first book, If I Die in Ohio, received the New American Fiction Prize. He received his MFA from the University of Mississippi and lives in Ohio.

L.I. Henley was born and raised in the Mojave Desert of California. Her essays on pain, illness, and the Mojave Desert have won the Arts & Letters/Susan Atefat Prize and the Robert and Adele Schiff Award. “A Blur on the Spine,” originally published by Southern Humanities Review, is a notable essay in The Best American Essays 2024.