Julia B. Levine is the author of numerous poetry collections, including Lullaby for the Sixth Extinction (Wolfson, 2025), Ordinary Psalms, which earned a Nautilus Award, and Small Disasters Seen in Sunlight, winner of the 2015 Northern California Book Award in Poetry. She served as the 2021–2024 poet laureate for the City of Davis, California, and was awarded a 2022 American Academy of Poetry Poet Laureate Fellowship related to climate change and building resiliency in teenagers through poetry, science, and technology.