Bio

Julie Salmon Kelleher grew up in five different towns in Washington State.  She holds a bachelor’s degree from Reed College and a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago, and currently teaches courses on humanities, literature, and writing in the Honors College at Western Washington University. Granddaughter to an Irish lawyer, an English teacher, a farm wife, and a logger turned dairyman, she lives with her family in a Cascadian college town, midway between the mountains and the sea.