Julie Murphy lives in North Texas with her husband who loves her and her cats who tolerate her.
A former librarian, Julie is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of books for all ages including Dumplin’ (now a film on Netflix and one of TIME Magazine's 100 Best YA Books of All Time), Dear Sweet Pea, and If the Shoe Fits. She is also the co-author of the Christmas Notch series with Sierra Simone.
Julie has been featured by Good Morning America, Teen Vogue, The New York Times, Vanity Fair, and more. When she’s not writing or reliving her reference desk glory days, she can be found watching made-for-TV movies, hunting for the perfect slice of cheese pizza, and planning her next great travel adventure.
And now for something fun…
My favorite places to shop are Madewell, Wray, Torrid, Eloquii, Universal Standard, Tamara Malas, and ASOS.
My favorite food is pizza, closely followed by Greek food.
I love low key trips with spectacular views and downtime to catch up on reading. (Beaches of all sorts from the Caribbean to the Pacific Northwest are a favorite of mine.)
I live for Halloween. Obsessed does not even begin to cover it.
I'm a cisgendered bisexual woman and my pronouns are she/her. They/them is fine too.
My husband's name is Ian and he works in the book world too. He loves cooking, Texas A&M, vinyl records, theme parties, POP vinyls, PokemonGo, and BBQ. You can find him on Instagram here.