Jane Gordon Julien is a career journalist and regular contributor to The New York Times, and winner of numerous awards from state and national press associations. She is the founder of Candlelight Writing Workshops, and also authors an award-winning blog, Notes on Writing at janegordonjulien.com. Her writing has appeared in the anthology Words Matter: Writing to Make a Difference, Bellevue Literary Review, Literary Mama, Northeast Magazine, and newspapers throughout the United States. She has served as an adjunct journalism professor at the University of Alabama-Birmingham and a guest lecturer at the University of Connecticut. She holds a master’s degree from Sarah Lawrence College, where she was an editor at the literary journal Lumina, and a bachelor’s degree from the University of Missouri School of Journalism. She is currently working on a novel, Margaret’s Story, about Margaret Corbin, a heroine in the Battle of Fort Washington in New York City.