Julie Cantrell

Julie Cantrell is a multiple award-winning, New York Times and USA Today bestselling author, editor, story coach, TEDx speaker, and ghostwriter. She served as editor-in-chief of the Southern Literary Review and has received the Mississippi Arts Commission Literary Arts Fellowship, the Rivendell Writer’s Colony Mary Elizabeth Nelson Fellowship, and the Pat Conroy Writer’s Residency Fellowship.

Her novels have earned starred reviews from Publishers Weekly and Library Journal and have been featured in Top Reads lists by LitHub, Redbook, Southern Living Magazine, REAL SIMPLE, BookBub,HuffPost, USA Today, and more. As a novelist, she’s received two Christy Awards, two Carol Awards, and the Mississippi Library Association Fiction Award. She was named a short-list finalist twice for the Mississippi Arts & Letters Fiction Award as well as a two-time short-list finalist for the Pat Conroy Southern Book Prize.

In addition to her writing, she works with survivors of abuse and serves as a literacy advocate. She’s a member of the Tall Poppy Writers, a non-profit organization that promotes the power of story and elevates female voices.

With published works across a diverse range of genres and languages, Julie currently works fulltime from her home in Houston, Texas where she finds great pleasure in shepherding other people’s stories to shelves.

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