Julie Esther Fisher's poems and short stories appear in Alaska Quarterly Review, Waxwing, Sheila-Na-Gig, Chicago Quarterly Review, Radar Poetry, The Citron Review, Prime Number Magazine, Tahoma Literary Review, On the Seawall, Sky Island Journal, Litmosphere, Leon Literary Review, Passager's 2025 Contest Issue, Sequestrum, and elsewhere. Julie is the Grand Prize Recipient of the Stories That Need to be Told Contest, winner of Sunspot Lit's Rigel Award, and a grateful recipient of a Massachusetts Cultural Council grant. Her novel in stories, A Pearl Is Just an Accident, is forthcoming from Silent Clamor Press. Raised in London, she holds degrees in fiction writing and counseling psychology. She lives today on conserved land in western Massachusetts.