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 and finalist for the Reader Views Literary Award for historical fiction and CIBA Chaucer Award) and the creator, under the pen name J. L. Brown, 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, Crime Writers of Color, the Historical Novel Society, Mystery Writers of America, Sisters in Crime, the Pacific Northwest Writers Association, 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. You can find her on linktr.ee/julielbrown