Julie Vandervoort

Julie Vandervoort is the award-winning author of Tell the Driver: A Biography of Elinor F.E. Black, M.D. (University of Manitoba Press) and The Perimeter Dog (Libros Libertad), a collection of creative non-fiction essays. Four of the essays were first published in Grain, Geist, Brick, and Prism. Another piece from the collection was chosen for a keynote presentation at a conference called Imagining Amsterdam: Visions and Revisions.  Julie has served on national arts panels, grant juries and the Board of the Writers’ Federation of Nova Scotia. She sings with the international Gaia project and has helped out on three CDs, including Widening Embrace, recorded at the Banff Centre in 2011.