Julie A. Sellers was born and raised in the Flint Hills near the small town of Florence, Kansas. Those great expanses of tallgrass prairie and reading fueled her imagination, and Julie began writing at an early age. After living in several states and countries, Julie is happy to make her home in Atchison, KS. Julie has published three academic books, and her creative prose and poetry have appeared in publications such as Journal of L.M. Montgomery Studies, 105 Meadowlark Reader, Cagibi, Wanderlust, The Very Edge, and Kansas Time + Place. Julie was the Kansas Author’s Club Prose Writer of the year (2020, 2022, 2023) and the overall Poetry Winner (2022) and Prose Winner (2017, 2019, 2024) in the Kansas Voices contest. Her collection Kindred Verse: Poems Inspired by Anne of Green Gables (Blue Cedar Press) was released in 2021. Her debut novel, Ann of Sunflower Lane (Meadodwlark Press, 2022) was a finalist for the 2023 High Plains Book Award and is a Kansas National Education Association Reading Circle Recommended Title.