As a freelance writer and editor, Julie specializes in wine, travel, lifestyle, outdoor adventure, food, and science and technology as it impacts real life. She is the Digital Editor for Wine & Spirits Magazine, and has contributed to such publications as Virtuoso Life, The Clever Root, AAA Journey, Sunset, Wired, Alaska Airlines, Seattle Met and more.

Whether she is writing about wine, travel, or a backcountry adventure, her work revolves around sense of place. She credits this to a childhood spent among lakes and dunes, woods and snow in Michigan, and formative years spent studying creative writing at Interlochen Arts Academy. That passion for place was also at the core of her master’s thesis at Rainier Writing Workshop at Pacific Lutheran University.

After 17 years in Seattle, Julie recently made her way across country, working as she went. In addition to working as a journalist, she’s also currently writing So I Gather, a book on foraging the U.S. from coast to coast.