About
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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Interviews/reviews
- The Rumpus, Hope and Rapture in the Anthropocene: A Conversation with Julie Carrick Dalton
- New York Journal of Books, The Last Beekeeper
- WBUR, Boston, Julie Carrick Dalton’s ‘The Last Beekeeper’ is a hopeful, post-apocalyptic thriller
- Newsweek, 2021’s Most Highly Anticipated New Books
- Chicago Review of Books, Mysteries Past and Present in ‘Waiting for the Night Song’
- Friends & Fiction, With Colleen Oakley and Julie Carrick Dalton
- The Boston Athenaeum, Julie Carrick Dalton
- The Shit No One Tells You About Writing Podcast, How to Know When You’re Ready to Query Agents
- Dropping in with Diane Dewey, Waiting for the Night Song: Julie Carrick Dalton’s Suspense Novel
- Wild Precious Life Podcast, The Last Beekeeper with Julie Carrick Dalton
- Stories for Earth, Julie Carrick Dalton, Author of ‘Waiting for the Night Song’
- Poisoned Pen Bookstore, Author Spotlight
- Thoughts From a Page Podcast, Interview with Julie Carrick Dalton – THE LAST BEEKEEPER
- Grub Street, Meet A Grubbie
Awards
Waiting for the Night Song
- Winner, New Hampshire Writers’ Project’s People’s Choice Award, Best Novel
- Semi Finalist, Siskiyou Prize for New Environmental Literature
- Finalist, Claymore Award
- Finalist, WFWA Star Award
The Last Beekeeper
- Longlisted, Massachusetts Book Award
- Finalist, Silver Falchion Award for Literary Fiction

Author photo credit: Sharona Jacobs
Book cover design: Katie Klimowicz