Julie Drew grew up in Florida, and attended the University of South Florida where she earned her B.A. in Creative Writing, and M.A. and Ph.D. in English. She is currently Professor of English at The University of Akron. She has done a little traveling, and lived for a year in China with her family. Julie has published numerous academic works, and nonfiction essays and new-fiction reviews in the Boston Globe and Cleveland Plain Dealer, respectively.
