Julienne is a Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing at Curtin University of Technology in Perth, Western Australia. She has more than ten years experience in teaching writing in a tertiary setting, and has previously taught at the University of Queensland, the University of Western Sydney and Griffith University.
 
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Julienne's first novel, Road Story, was written as part of her doctoral thesis in writing at the University of Queensland, where she worked under the supervision of Australian novelists Amanda Lohrey and Jan McKemmish. Road Story won the prestigious Australian/Vogel Award in 2004. More recently, Julienne has been the recipient of an Australia Council Grant from the Literature Board for New Work (2006) and an ArtsWA Grant for Writing (2007).
 
Born in Taree in 1970, Julienne grew up in various towns in country New South Wales,  including many years in Dubbo in the State’s Central West. Her father migrated to Australia from The Netherlands in the early nineteen-fifties and married an Australian nurse. Julienne is the youngest of their three children.
 
Julienne completed a Bachelor of Creative Arts (Hons) and a Master of Arts by research at the University of Wollongong. In the mid 1990's, she and her partner relocated to Western Australia, where they now live with their son and an ageing Dobermann in the Perth hills.