Ms. Maloney’s book of poems, Private Landscape, published by Arseya Press, is an intimate look into the heart of a woman who traveled through cancer. She is a frequent keynote speaker on “Writing as a Life Tool” and leads an on-going writing series she founded fifteen years ago—“Writing to Heal”—at Morristown Memorial Hospital in New Jersey. As founder/director of WOMEN READING ALOUD, an international literary organization, Ms. Maloney leads writing workshops throughout the year. She has led thirty-one writing retreats in the USA, Greece, Czech Republic, the South of France, England and Portugal. In 2026, she will lead a writer’s retreat in The Finger Lakes Region, New York.
Her award-winning debut novel, “A Matter of Chance” (She Writes Press), was selected by USWEEKLY Magazine as a trending book and won the Eric Hoffer Book Award for General Fiction for 2019. As well, it was a finalist for Forward Reviews. Ms. Maloney has published in many literary journals such as, Paterson Literary Review, WomenKin, Edison Literary Review, Tiferet Literary Anthology, Valdosta Voice, Silk Purse Women, Travel Fiction, and others, as well as MORE Magazine. She is a former columnist featuring women in the arts in a regional magazine. Research for “A Matter of Chance – A Novel,” took her to Bavaria, Germany, where she traveled extensively, including a visit to the Kaethe Kollwitz Museum in Cologne, Germany. Her new work-in-progress, a novel, has led her to Chartres, France for research.
Julie lives with her husband outside of New York City.
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