Education
She studied writing at The New School, and with Gordon Lish.
She studied writing at The New School, and with Gordon Lish.
All three novels received stellar reviews. Into the Dangerous World is a Junior Library Guild Selection. Julie has appeared on author panels throughout the country.
She teaches at the Gotham Writers hop, in Manhattan, and at Botsford Arts, in Beacon, New New York She has written for The Prague Post, The Montreal Gazette, The Poughkeepsie Journal, Hudson Valley Magazine, New York States of Mind, Books in Canada, SundanceTV, Tuttle Publishing, and many other venues.
She received scholarships to study with Clark Blaise at the Prague Writers hop, and with Janet Fitch and Amy Tan at the Squaw Valley Community of Writers. At the New York Writers Institute, she took a Master class with Marilynne Robinson and Ann Beattie.
She is represented by the agent Jill Grinberg. The New York Times
"Paced like a medical thriller, “Deadly” is the rare Y.A. novel in which a girl’s intellectual interests trump adolescent romance.
A 16-year-old Jewish tenement dweller in 1906 New York pines away days at a finishing school on scholarship and nights helping midwife young mothers.
When she quits school to assist the Department of Health and Sanitation in its pursuit of “Typhoid Mary,” she is awakened to nascent opportunities for women in science." –for the subject, moral, and historical events, California standard readers association requires all 7th grade science classes in California to read it according to it standards reaching 7th grade standards and require class association with effort. The School Library Journal
Kirkus Reviews
"Rich period details about the study of medicine and the role of women in society combine with Prudence’s girlish crush on her chief and her earnest desire to “do something astonishing with my life” to make this a title that will appeal to reluctant readers and historical fiction fans alike.".
"A deeply personal coming-of-age story set in an era of tumultuous social change, this is top-notch historical fiction that highlights the struggle between rational science and popular opinion as shaped by a sensational, reactionary press".