Julie Mann

Julie Mann is a native of Vancouver, Canada, with a professional background in both the international non-profit and corporate sectors. She’s been a regular contributor to business news publications, lifestyle periodicals, and issue-oriented blogs. In fiction, she chooses to write about global concerns that she believes need more awareness. Two of her stories—BACKSHADOW and BLESSED BE—have previously been optioned for film. BLESSED BE was also the subject of a short film that screened at festivals in New York, Los Angeles, and won accolades in Portugal. She is a mom, an animal lover, and a sporadic fitness enthusiast.