Bio for Lemonade & Rumors

Rumor has it, Julie Ann Cook spent her pre-registered-voter years in southwestern Pennsylvania, less than an hour from Pittsburgh. She has had a love-hate relationship with her status as the oldest (but rarely tallest) of four children in a close Catholic family: no older siblings to live up to equates to being the guinea pig.

Julie wrote her first poems at 7, 15, and 17 years old. She dismissed this tendency to scribble words and instead sought a degree in visual arts. Still, somehow she walked away from Winthrop University (but not too far away -- she still lives three miles from campus) with a minor in writing anyhow.

At the time of this writing, this Yankee-born Carolina girl is pregnantly residing in Rock Hill, SC with her wonderfully supportive husband, their wild-but-good-natured little boy, and two neurotic cats. They are expecting their second child in early September 2006.