Julie Cohen spent most of her formative years at the library in Rumford, Maine, reading everything she could get her hands on and harbouring a secret crush on the male librarian. She quickly figured out that in fiction, she could have whatever man she wanted, and accordingly, she and her best friend used every study hall to write passionate stories about themselves and various celebrities.

Julie studied at Brown University, gaining a summa cum laude degree with honours in English. She became a peer writing tutor and drew a weekly cartoon for the Brown Daily Herald entitled “Georgie and Squid,” about an Elvis lookalike with a pet cephalopod. During her junior year abroad at Cambridge University, she fell in love with the United Kingdom and moved there in 1992 to pursue a M.Phil. at the University of Reading. Her thesis was a study of fairies in late nineteenth and early twentieth century children’s fiction.

After finding a career as a secondary school English teacher, Julie started writing humorous, sexy women’s fiction and romance. Her fourth novel was a 2004 short contemporary Golden Heart finalist and will be published in 2005 by Harlequin Temptation as Dream Lover. Lately, she has gained a measure of notoriety and national press attention for giving a series of seminars on how to write sex scenes.

She lives in Berkshire, England, with her husband. She teaches English and is teased daily about her American accent. You can visit her website at www.julie-cohen.com.