Julie Carrick Dalton is the author of The Last Beekeeper, longlisted for the 2024 Massachusetts Book Award, and Waiting for the Night Song, winner of the New Hampshire Writer’s Project 2023 People’s Choice Award for Best Novel, an Amazon Best Book of the Month, and a Most Anticipated novel by CNN, USA Today, Parade and Newsweek. A former journalist, farmer, and beekeeper, she is a frequent speaker on the topic of fiction in the age of climate crisis at universities, museums, and conferences nationally and internationally. Julie serves on the teaching faculty of Drexel University’s MFA in creative writing program and teaches Climate Fiction at Tufts University. Her third novel, The Forest Becomes Her, will be published in early 2026.