Julie Ryan McGue

Julie Ryan McGue is an award-winning American writer. Her most recent novel, Belonging Matters, a collection that explores the pursuit of identity and the boundaries of family and kinship, is a Silver Winner in the Non Fiction Book Awards, an Honorable Mention in the Books Shelf Nonfiction Writing Contest, a Literary Titan Book Award Winner, a finalist in the Wishing Shelf Book Awards, and a Firebird Book Award Winner. Julie was born in Chicago, Illinois. She and her identical twin sister were adopted together. Julie's debut memoir, Twice a Daughter, is about the search for birth relatives. She writes about finding out who you are, where you belong, and making sense of it. Her weekly blogs focus on identity, family, and life's quirky moments. If she's not at her computer writing, she's out exploring with her camera, or on the tennis court. She is the mother of four adult children, a grandmother, and splits her time between NW Indiana and Sarasota.