About Writing with Julie

This is my place to play, mix metaphors, elongate ellipses, dangle participles, to dabble in my art and tell my stories. I come here to chat about my writing journey, but every so often essays on yoga, wine, nature, or peanut butter sneak in. Well, I haven’t written about peanut butter. But I will. I have a good peanut butter story, as it so happens. I also write about books that challenge and delight my literary senses.

I am the author of the novels In Another Life and The Crows of Beara. My short stories and essays have appeared in several journals, including Emerge Literary Journal; Mud Season Review; Cirque: A Literary Journal of the North Pacific Rim; Cobalt; River Poets Journal, in the print anthologies Stories for Sendai; Up, Do: Flash Fiction by Women Writers; and Three Minus One: Stories of Love and Loss; and featured on the flash fiction podcast No Extra Words. I lead writing workshops and offer story/developmental editing and writer coaching services.

A hiker, yogini, and wine geek, I make my home on the Olympic Peninsula of northwest Washington state.