Julie Auer joined the KWG in 1999, upon winning first prize in the KWG essay contest. Since she began writing in 1998, she has written a novel and several essays and short stories. She has published three short stories and has won a special merit from the National League of American Pen Women in San Francisco. A lawyer by profession, Julie’s essays explore the dark comic realities of crime and punishment. In 2001 Julie was invited to read one of her essays as part of the University of Tennessee Writers in the Library series. After her first year on the KWG Board of Directors, Julie was elected president in 2002. For two years she organized the Young Writers’ Prize, and has now resurrected the Essay Prize for 2002. She formed the Short Fiction Group in 2000 and has been active in it ever since; she managed to assemble a group of such talent and experience that she finds herself to be—at this point—its least distinguished writer. In the meantime, she has helped to organize KWG’s participation in the Southern Festival of Books, has done committee work for the Peter Taylor Prize and the KWG Awards, and has taken up the cause of diversifying the KWG membership. In her spare time, Julie pursues her passion for such activities as reading, watching movies, and sleeping. Julie is an avid collector of works of pulp fiction from the forties and fifties, finding inspiration from the likes of H.P. Lovecraft and other unconventional authors of the era of Weird Tales for much of her own fiction.
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