Julia Nunnally Duncan is an award-winning North Carolina author, whose publication credits include nine books of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry and scores of stories, essays, and poems in literary journals and anthologies. Her credits and biography have been listed in Literary Trails of the North Carolina Mountains (UNC Press), she has been reviewed and interviewed in Southern Literary Review, and featured in North Carolina Literary Review. Additional reviews of her work have appeared in Our State Magazine, Asheville Citizen-Times, Appalachian Heritage, and many other newspapers and journals.
Julia’s literary works often explore life in a Western North Carolina textile mill town and confront issues of poverty, unemployment, and alcohol abuse.
Educated at Warren Wilson College, from which she holds a BA in English and an MFA in Creative Writing, Julia has taught English and Southern Culture for over thirty years at her local community college. Recently retiring as a full-time instructor, she continues to teach part-time.
Julia lives in Marion, NC, a town thirty miles east of Asheville, with her husband Steve, a wood carver, and their daughter Annie, a college sophomore. Julia is currently working on a second essay collection and a fifth poetry collection.