About

Meet Julie

Novelist, Speaker, & Educator

Julie Gerstenblatt holds a doctorate in Curriculum and Instruction from Teachers College, Columbia University and has taught everything from middle school English to graduate studies, most recently serving as an adjunct professor of Rhetoric and Composition at Roger Williams University. Her essays have appeared in The Huffington Post, Kveller, Cognoscenti, and Grown & Flown, among others. Her debut novel, Daughters of Nantucket, won the New England Society Book Award for Fiction, and The Stargazer of Nantucket was a USA Today bestseller.

Julie often speaks to book clubs and other organizations about the craft of writing as well as her research practices, delving into how she blends historical accuracy with imagined characters necessary for vivid, period-specific storytelling. Julie also works one-on-one as a college essay coach and is a part-time bookseller at Barrington Books in her hometown.

A native New Yorker who has been visiting Nantucket since childhood, Julie now lives in coastal Rhode Island with her family and one very smart smart poodle mix.