Julie Hanson is the author of Unbeknownst, an Iowa Poetry Prize winner and 2012 Kate Tufts Discovery Award finalist. Her work has earned fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Vermont Studio Center, as well as publication in New Ohio Review, VOLT, Plume, and other journals. She holds an MFA in poetry from the Iowa Writers' Workshop.

"As Julie Hanson writes in the first poem in The Audible and the Evident, 'I tell you, real life is a pull and a lure / and a fling-back thing, a need / and a need and a slow-motion slide / through all sorts of partially identified / coming-right-at-you sudden matters.' Hanson's poems enact this pull and lure, this need, this shifting of gears. This poet's mind shines in the sentence-making, the line-breaking, and the tension between them. The Audible and the Evident not only gives pleasure but teaches the reader — about poem-making and about living this 'real life.'" "Julie Hanson's poems in The Audible and the Evident are keenly attentive, subtle in their magic and mischief, and surprising in their candor and clarity. These poems place in our hearts the 'contagion of curiosity,' and make of the ordinary the extraordinary, an intricate and wondrous realm where 'possibility is constant.'" "The rare formal ease and grace of the poems in The Audible and the Evident are as plain and gorgeously detailed as a snowscape in Iowa. Bristling with alert attention, Julie Hanson's poems witness and recover the world of things (and things felt), caught as they are in the contingencies of time." "Hanson's poetics reflect a deep attention to balance, precision, and lucidity." (DMQ Review)