Julie C. Dao is the award-winning author of many books from Disney, Macmillan, Penguin Random House, and more. Her novels have earned starred reviews from Booklist, School Library Journal, and Publishers Weekly. Her Rise of the Empress series has been optioned for TV.

 

A proud Vietnamese-American who was born in upstate New York, she now lives in New England.

 

Pronunciation: JOOL-lee DOW 
Pronouns: She/Her