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Julie Caldwell is an award winning and bestselling Young Adult Fantasy Author. She was born and raised in Oklahoma where she still resides with her little black cat Absynthe. Julie fell in love with reading when she was very little when her mother would read stories to her at bedtime. Her love of reading quickly translated into her love of writing, first with poems, and then with full length novels. She self published her debut YA Fantasy Of Witches and Ruin, and its sequel Of War and Magic, and both are now bestselling novels. She is a 2024 recipient of the NextGen Under 30 Oklahoma Award, which honors creative and innovative leaders Under 30 years old in Oklahoma, and was recently featured as a guest on the Maverick Podcast and was interviewed for KGOU’s On the Scene. She has a love of anything mythological or having to do with the occult. Her hobbies include playing video games, and photography. Book One of her next series, Raven’s Cove Academy Chronicles, releases September 30th, 2025.