Bio

Julie Carrick Dalton is the New England-based author of The Last Beekeeper, longlisted for the Massachusetts Book Award, and Waiting for the Night Song, winner of the New Hampshire Writers’ Project’s People’s Choice Award for Best Novel, an Amazon Editor’s pick for Best Books of the Month, and a Most Anticipated 2021 novel by CNN, Newsweek, USA Today, Parade, and others. A member of the teaching faculty of Drexel University’s Creative Writing MFA Program and a recent Visiting Lecturer at Tufts University, Julie is a frequent speaker on the topic of Fiction in the Age of Climate Crisis at universities, conferences, libraries, and museums, nationally and internationally. Her writing has appeared in Chicago Review of Books, Orion, Newsweek, The Boston Globe, Electric Literature, Lit Hub, and other publications. Her third novel, The Forest Becomes Her, will be published by St. Martin’s Press in 2026. When she isn’t reading or writing, you can probably find Julie digging in her garden, skiing, kayaking, walking her dogs, or trying to keep track of her four adult children.

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