Julie Brickman is author of the novel What Birds Can Only Whisper published by Turnstone Press in 1997. She teaches fiction on the faculty of the brief-residency Master of Fine Arts in Writing Program at Spalding University in Louisville, Kentucky and reviews books for the Sunday Books supplement of the San Diego Union-Tribune. Her fiction and nonfiction has appeared in Fireweed, The Louisville Review, International Journal of Women's Studies, Kinesis, Canadian Psychology and the anthology High Horse. Her second novel, An Empty Quarter, is the tale of one woman's journey into the heart of Arabia; her story "An Empty  Quarter" received a nomination for a Pushcart prize. For three months, Julie was writer-in-residence at the Berton House in the gold rush town of Dawson City; her third novel is set in the Canadian Yukon. Julie holds an MFA in Writing from Vermont College and a Ph.D. in psychology from the University of Manitoba. She has been a guest editor in fiction and creative nonfiction for The Louisville Review and reviews books for the San Diego Union-Tribune.  Together with her mother, Molly, Julie runs a writers group for residents of a senior care facility. She lives in Laguna Beach, California with her husband, writer and psychologist, Bob Hoyk.

"She Don't Look Back"

Julie Brickman, former resident of the Berton House Writer's Retreat, gave up her secure career as a Toronto psychologist in order to write fiction.

Click here (pdf) to view an article that appeared in The Yukon News; Friday, April 9, 1999 by Al Pope.

Click here to view an article that appeared in The Klondike Sun; Friday, April 30, 1999 by Dan Davidson.