Julie L. Brown is the author of the historical fiction, Bend, Don’t Break (finalist for the Wishing Shelf Independent Book Award), the alternative-history novel, No One Will Save Us (winner of the Independent Press Award for African American fiction, winner of the Reader Views Literary Award for Global-Africa fiction, winner of the CIBA Humor & Satire Award, finalist for the Reader Views Literary Award for historical fiction, finalist for the CIBA Chaucer Award), and under the pen name, J. L. Brown, she is also the creator of the Jade Harrington series, political thrillers which include the novels, Don’t Speak, Rule of Law, and The Divide, and the short story, “Few Are Chosen.”

She is a member of Black Women Write Seattle, the Historical Novel Society, Mystery Writers of America, Crime Writers of Color, Sisters in Crime, the Pacific Northwest Writers Association, Wishing Shelf, and the Alliance of Independent Authors.

Julie earned an MFA in Creative Writing from the Stonecoast program at the University of Southern Maine. She resides with her family in the Pacific Northwest, where she is working on her next novel.