Julie Maloney

Julie Maloney is the founder/director of Women Reading Aloud, a nonprofit organization devoted to promoting women writers. She is a trained workshop leader in the Amherst Writers and Artists Method and holds an MFA from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. She is a former dancer, choreographer and artistic director of the Julie Maloney Dance Company in New York City. Her book of poems, "Private Landscape," was published by Arseya Press. Her poems have appeared in many journals such as Tiferet, WomenKin, Paterson Literary Review, and many others. She is a frequent speaker on "Writing as a Life Tool." As director of Women Reading Aloud, she leads writing workshops throughout the year. Maloney will return to the island of Alonnisos in September 2018 to lead her eighth international writer's retreat in Greece. In 2017 she lead her second writer's retreat in the south of France. Her debut novel, "A Matter of Chance," will be published by She Writes Press in April 2018.