Julie S. Paschold (Tansy Julie the Soaring Eagle) is a poet and artist from Nebraska. She has her BS and MS in agronomy from the University of Nebraska at Lincoln. She has published three poetry books. Horizons (Atmosphere Press: paperback & audiobook) honors soil through family, identity, and nature, and won a Nebraska Book Award in 2024. Her chapbook You Have Always Been Here (Bass Clef Books: paperback) is an unconventional love story. Human Nature (WSC Press: paperback & Atmosphere Press: audiobook) explores humanity’s ecological and environmental connection to nature and the planet earth. Julie is the resident poetry instructor at Omaha’s Lauritzen Gardens. Julie has been published in a wide range of publications, most recently in The Awakenings Review and The Guilded Weathervane. Their poem “Multitudes of Blue
Arrows” was a semi-finalist in the first Kate Sommers Memorial Prize in 2023, and two of their chapbooks won honorable mention in contests by Writer’s Digest in 2021 and 2022. They volunteer for the international Human Library Organization.
Arrows” was a semi-finalist in the first Kate Sommers Memorial Prize in 2023, and two of their chapbooks won honorable mention in contests by Writer’s Digest in 2021 and 2022. They volunteer for the international Human Library Organization.
