Julia María Schiavone Camacho is a historian and a writer. She is the author of Chinese Mexicans: Transpacific Migration and the Search for a Homeland, 1910-1960 (North Carolina, 2012). Julia’s historical fiction appears in the anthology Feisty Deeds: Historical Fictions of Daring Women (2024). She also has short fiction in The Florida Review, The Coachella Review, and The Hopper, and her work has been nominated for Best of the Net Anthology. Her short nonfiction appears in Catholic Answers and Hayden’s Ferry Review. Julia is Catholic. Raised in Tucson, she grew up traveling across the Arizona/Sonora borderlands. She teaches history, writing, and world Christianity at a small college. Julia and her husband make their home in both Southern California and Michiana. Julia loves the austere beauty of the desert and mountains and the vastness of the ocean as well as the greenery and seasons of the Midwest. She likes to read and to walk.