Black Hills poet Julie Gonnering Lein joins us at Henry’s Books in Spearfish on Saturday, September 6 from noon to 2 pm for a signing of her poetry collections.

About the author:

Julie Gonnering Lein earned her PhD in Literature and Creative Writing from the University of Utah. She is author of the chapbooks Seed (South Dakota Poetry Society contest winner, 2024) and Glacier, Perfect Tense (Dancing Girl Press). Her work was shortlisted for the Helena Whitehill Book Award (Tupelo Press), and has won a Larry Levis Memorial Poetry Prize (Academy of American Poets), the Hal Prize in Poetry, and the Winter Anthology Annual Contest among other honors. Poems have appeared in Colorado Review, Best New Poets, Bateau, Bear Review, The Laurel Review, Bellingham Review, Terrain.org, Phoebe and elsewhere. She lives in South Dakota’s Black Hills with her family. Find her on Instagram @juliegonneringlein.

About Seed:

"Seed explores the fertility of language, using words in a way both playful and provocative, reminding me simultaneously of Hailey Leithauser and Lucie Brock-Broido. These poems incant within feminine spaces, whether casting domestic fabulist spells, or singing the psalms of a mystic. I am enraptured." (Heidi Czerwiec, lyric essayist and poet)