Introducing. . .

BY THE SHORES OF LAKE MICHIGAN: A COLLECTION OF SIX LINKED STORIES

By Julia Wilson

For the last 32 years, I have been spending summers in Northern Michigan, next to Lake Michigan and various smaller lakes. Most of the mining and timber industry has disappeared from the area, leaving, apart from the tourist revenue, economically depressed towns.

 Leaning on my familiarity of the area, I have crafted six short stories about the challenges one family faces living in East Jordan, Michigan, including unexpected pregnancies, college aspirations, and drug use. 

Julia Wilson writes fiction and personal essays and her work has appeared in Bethesda Magazine, Erma Bombeck Writer Workshop blog, New Pages blog, and 101 Words.  Before becoming a fiction writer, Julia was a reporter and editor, then pivoted to become a certified lactation consultant for 10 years. She completed her MA in Writing at Johns Hopkins University in 2023. She lives outside Washington, D.C. with her husband and dog and has three grown children.             

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