Julie Carrick Dalton grew up in Maryland and on a military base in Germany. As an adult, she bounced around from Seattle to Dallas to Virginia, before finding her true home in Boston, where she has lived for more than twenty years. Her writing has appeared in The Boston Globe, BusinessWeek, The Hollywood Reporter, Electric Literature, and other publications. She contributes to The Chicago Review of Books, DeadDarlings, and The Writer Unboxed. A Tin House alum and graduate of GrubStreet’s Novel Incubator, Julie holds a Master’s in Literature and Creative Writing from Harvard Extension School. She is a frequent speaker on the topic of writing fiction in the age of climate crisis. Mom to four kids and two dogs, Julie is a passionate skier, hiker, and kayaker. A former beeker, she also owns and operates an organic farm. Please excuse her dirty fingernails.

In her startling and timely debut, Julie Carrick Dalton’s Waiting for the Night Song is a moving, brilliant novel about friendships forged in childhood magic and ruptured by the high price of secrets that leave you forever changed. The novel is a love song to the natural beauty around us, a call to fight for what we believe in, and a reminder that the truth will always rise. Julie’s next novel, The Last Beekeeper, is set for release in March 2023.

Julie’s next novel, The Last Beekeeper, is a celebration of found family, an exploration of truth versus power, and the triumph of hope in the face of despair, and was published in March, 2023.