329- SPECIAL EPISODE Julie Carrick Dalton - Author of The Forest Becomes Her

This Special Edition podcast features long-time WFWA member Julie Carrick Dalton (The Forest Becomes Her, St. Martin's Press, July 2026) who has just published her third book with a Big Five publisher with another one due in 2028. Rather than focus on her publishing journey, we dive deep into the writing process itself, including finding your "why", emotional mining your own psyche for true emotional resonance, and how to turn a passion (in Julie's case, climate activism) into a framing network for your writing career. So much meaty discussion here, including why you might want your book to rate lower on GoodReads, exploring the different stages in women's lives, and the power of chiastic storytelling, a novel where the end circles back to the beginning.   Julie Carrick Dalton is the author of The Forest Becomes Her, The Last Beekeeper, and Waiting for the Night Song. Her work has won the New Hampshire Book Awards' People's Choice Award for Best Novel and been named a finalist for the Massachusetts Book Award, the Siskiyou Prize for New Environmental Literature, and others. Her novels have appeared on most-anticipated lists from CNN, Newsweek, USA Today, and Parade, among others. A former journalist, organic farmer, and beekeeper, she is a TEDx and keynote speaker who frequently speaks about fiction in the age of climate crisis at universities, museums, and conferences in the United States and abroad. She teaches in Drexel University's Creative Writing MFA program, is a 2026–27 Visiting Scholar of Note at the American Library of Paris, and is a frequent guest lecturer at Harvard. To learn more about Julie, click here.