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About the Author
Julia holds a Master of Fine Arts in Writing degree from Spalding University in Louisville, Kentucky. She is a 2017-18 Fulbright Scholar through the US State Department Teachers for Global Classrooms and traveled to India in July 2018 to study and teach. She is a published author of 2 books, Flowers for Elvis and The Ingredients of Gumbo. A 2008 West Tennessee Writing Project fellow at the University of Tennessee at Martin, Julia is certified as a State of Tennessee Teacher Consultant through the National Writing Project. Julia leads seminars and writing workshops for literary organizations and schools, and speaks publicly about writing, the writing life and her Catholic faith.
Julia has enjoyed teaching Catholic Theology and English at St. Agnes Academy-St. Dominic School in Memphis, Tennessee for over 18 years. There she fills many leadership roles.
As a journalist for Florida Interactive Newspapers, this opinionated belle redefined the expression, "a piece of my mind" in her weekly column titled "Ask a Southern Mother." She was a student editor for the national literary journal, The Louisville Review in 2005, and was the 2006 first place honoree in fiction in the Kentuckian Metroversity Literary Competition.
This website is not an official U.S. Department of State website. The views and information presented are the grantee’s own and do not represent the Teachers for Global Classrooms Program, IREX, or the U.S. Department of State.
Check out her work in these publications
Julia has enjoyed teaching Catholic Theology and English at St. Agnes Academy-St. Dominic School in Memphis, Tennessee for over 18 years. There she fills many leadership roles.
As a journalist for Florida Interactive Newspapers, this opinionated belle redefined the expression, "a piece of my mind" in her weekly column titled "Ask a Southern Mother." She was a student editor for the national literary journal, The Louisville Review in 2005, and was the 2006 first place honoree in fiction in the Kentuckian Metroversity Literary Competition.
This website is not an official U.S. Department of State website. The views and information presented are the grantee’s own and do not represent the Teachers for Global Classrooms Program, IREX, or the U.S. Department of State.
Check out her work in these publications