Julie Wittes Schlack

Julie Wittes Schlack has both the literary and life credentials to write this story, as a member of a small cohousing community herself. Julie is a regular contributor to National Public Radio station WBUR's widely read journal of ideas and opinions, Cognoscenti. Her short stories and essays have appeared in numerous journals, including Shenandoah, Pangyrus, Ninth Letter, The Tampa Review, and Writer's Chronicle. She is the author of the essay collection This All-at-Onceness, and the novel Burning and Dodging. She holds an MFA from Lesley University, where she also occasionally teaches memoir, book reviewing, and OpEd writing. Julie lives with her husband in Northampton, Massachusetts, and is the grateful mother of two daughters in whose lives she never meddles.