Julie Carrick Dalton
As a Boston-based journalist, JULIE CARRICK DALTON has published more than a thousand articles in The Boston Globe, Electric Literature, BusinessWeek, The Hollywood Reporter, and other publications. She contributes to The Chicago Review of Books, DeadDarlings, The Writer Unboxed, and GrubStreet’s writer’s blogs. A Tin House alum, Dalton was a finalist in the Santa Fe Writers Project Literary Awards Program and she 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. 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. Mom to four kids and two dogs, she also owns and operates a 100-acre organic farm in rural New Hampshire, the backdrop for Waiting for the Night Song, her debut. Her second novel, THE LAST BEEKEEPER, will be released in 2022. Drop In with us to meet Julie and discover how she wove these important threads together and what her motivations were to do so.
