Julie Paul

Julie Paul is the author of three short fiction collections, The Jealousy Bone (Emdash, 2008), The Pull of the Moon (Brindle & Glass, 2014), and Meteorites (Touchwood / B & G, 2019), as well as the poetry collection The Rules of the Kingdom (MQUP, 2017). The Pull of the Moon received both an IPPY award and the Victoria Book Prize, and her personal essay “It Not Only Rises, It Shines,” won the 2016 Edna Staebler Personal Essay Award from The New Quarterly. Her short story “The Expansion” won The Rusty Toque’s 2016 Chapbook Award, and The Rules of the Kingdom was a finalist in 2018 for both the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize and the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award. She lives in Victoria BC, where, in addition to writing, she works as a Registered Massage Therapist.