Author Talk with Julie Gerstenblatt

Meeting Room 2. Julie Gerstenblatt is the author of Daughters of Nantucket, which won the 2024 New England Society Book Award for Fiction, and The Stargazer of Nantucket, a USA Today bestseller. A former educator who has taught everything from middle school English to graduate studies, Julie holds a B.A. from Union College and two master’s degrees and a doctorate in curriculum and instruction from Teachers College, Columbia University. Her essays have appeared in Huffington Post and Grown & Flown, among others. A native New Yorker who has been visiting Nantucket since childhood, Julie now lives in coastal Rhode Island with her family, where she works at Barrington Books, practices yoga, and gets writing advice from her dog.