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Julie Chibbaro is the author of Deadly, a medical mystery about the hunt for Typhoid Mary. Deadly won the 2011 National Jewish Book Award, and was Top 10 on the American Library Association's Amelia Bloomer Project list. Deadly was named Outstanding Science Trade Book by the National Science Teachers Association for 2012. The novel was reviewed in The New York Times, Kirkus Reviews, and School Library Journal.
Julie Chibbaro's first book, Redemption won the 2005 American Book Award. In 2013, her new novel, Aurora Borealis & Amazing, will be published by Penguin, with drawings by Jean-Marc Superville Sovak.
Julie Chibbaro participated in the University of Pennyslvania's MAGPI program, teaching young people about writing and history. She has appeared on author panels throughout the country, and was a Featured Speaker at the 2012 USA Science & Engineering Festival Book Fair. Julie studied writing at The New School, and with Gordon Lish. She studied with Clark Blaise at the Prague Writers Workshop, and with Janet Fitch, Lynn Freed and Mark Childress at the Squaw Valley Community of Writers. At the New York Writers Institute, she took a Master class with Marilynne Robinson and Ann Beattie.
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