[close] Julie's background is in advertising and marketing, but she is blessed with a dream job—working as an editor of Christian fiction. She has been writing since childhood, but Lady of Milkweed Manor is her first novel. She is hard at work on her second.

Julie graduated from the University of Illinois and enjoys travel, research, BBC period dramas, long hikes, short naps, and coffee with friends.

Julie and her husband have two sons and live near St. Paul, Minnesota.