Julie Barton and her bestselling memoir, DOG MEDICINE

Photo credit: Heather Knape

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We're thrilled to be welcoming Julie Barton, the New York Times bestselling author of DOG MEDICINE, HOW MY DOG SAVED ME FROM MYSELF to next year's Unbound Book Festival. Julie will be appearing on our canine-based panel, IN DOG WE TRUST.  She is pictured above with her beloved Golden Retriever Bunker, the subject of her beautiful book.

Julie has a B.A. from Kenyon College, an M.F.A. in Writing from Vermont College of Fine Arts, and an M.A. in Women’s Studies from Southern Connecticut State University. Julie has been published in Brain Child Magazine, The South Carolina Review, Louisiana Literature, Two Hawks Quarterly, Westview, The Huffington Post, and was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. She lives in Northern California with her husband Greg, two children, and small menagerie of pets. We can't wait to welcome her to Columbia!