A native of Kansas, Julie Sellers now lives in Laramie, Wyoming where she works as a Foreign Language Training Specialist for the Wyoming Department of Education. Julie also does translations in a variety of fields, interprets for the Municipal and Circuit Courts, is a free-lance contributor to McGraw Hill Textbooks, and writes stories, essays, poems and academic papers in both Spanish and English. She has published three creative non-fiction articles in Troika magazine, an academic article in Confluencia, and a biography of her grandfather in Kanhistique. Additionally, Julie is the author of a chapter in a University of Wyoming publication, Warming Up the Chill: Teaching Against the Structures. Her first book, Merengue and Dominican Identity: Music as National Unifier was released by McFarland & Company Publishers, Inc. in October 2004.