Julie Salmon Kelleher grew up in five different towns in Washington State. She holds a B.A. from Reed College and a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago, and currently teaches courses on humanities, nature literature, and fantasy writing in the Honors College at Western Washington University. Her publications include scholarship in Mythlore and Victorian Studies, and creative nonfiction on the folklore of Irish saints in LETTERS and Relief. 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.