Julie Riddle is the craft-essay editor for Brevity: A Journal of Concise Literary Nonfiction, and the creative-nonfiction editor for Rock & Sling: A Journal of Witness, published by Whitworth University. By day she works as senior writer for marketing and development at Whitworth and associate editor of Whitworth Today magazine.

She holds an MFA from the Rainier Writing Workshop at Pacific Lutheran University and is writing a memoir, Best Wishes for Your Future (check out About the Book). Her essay, “Animals,” from the manuscript, is forthcoming in The Georgia Review in 2013.