Julia María Schiavone Camacho is a historian and a writer. She is the author of Chinese Mexicans (North Carolina, 2012). Julia’s short nonfiction is in a recent issue of Hayden’s Ferry Review. Her short fiction appears in The Florida Review. This spring, another piece will be in a Women’s Fiction Writers Association historical fiction anthology. Novel excerpts appear in The Coachella Review and The Hopper, and her work has been nominated for Best of the Net Anthology. Julia is Catholic. Raised in Tucson, she grew up traveling across the Arizona/Sonora borderlands. She teaches history and writing at Goshen College. Julia and her husband make their home in both Michiana and Southern California. Julia loves the austere beauty of the desert and the vastness and peace of the sea and mountains as well as the greenery and seasons of the Midwest. Julia likes to walk and to read.