Julie C. Dao is the award-winning, critically acclaimed author of many books from Disney, Macmillan, Penguin Random House, and more. Her Rise of the Empress novels have been optioned as a major television series and her works have been published and translated in a dozen countries.

 

A proud Vietnamese-American who was born in upstate New York, she now lives in New England with her husband and family.

 

Pronunciation: JOOL-lee DOW 
Pronouns: She/Her