Julie Choffel's poems are recently published or forthcoming in Posit, Barrow Street, Orion, New American Writing, Interim, RHINO, and elsewhere. Choffel is also the author of The Hello Delay (Fordham) and a few chapbooks including The Chicories (Ethel Press) and The Inevitable Return of What We Do Not Love (Finishing Line Press). Choffel was born and raised in Austin, TX, but now lives near Hartford, CT.