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Julie Hartley
Julie Hartley
Julie Hartley is the author of three books. Her first novel for middle grade readers, The Finding Place, was published in September 2016 by Red Deer Press. The novel features as its protagonist an international adoptee, and deals with questions relating to identity, family and cultural dislocation. In 2019 Julie published two further books - a guide for teachers on how to introduce Shakespeare to students, and a collection of poetry entitled Deboning a Dragon. Julie is also a short story writer and playwright. She was the recipient of the Peace Poetry Prize (UK) and her work has been published in literary magazines such as CV2, Event Magazine, Taddle Creek and the Toronto Quarterly.
Julie has had 2 decades of experience as a teacher and as the director of an overnight camp for the arts. She has taught creative writing and drama in schools, colleges, universities and for international conferences and is director of her own creative writing school in Toronto, the Centauri Arts Academy. She has a current police check, which includes vulnerable sector screening, and loves nothing more than meeting with readers in schools.
Julie loves travel, nature and all topics relating to youth development and parenting. She is mom to a teenager adopted from China as a baby, and shares her writing room with a feisty parrot who (tragically) likes to eat books.