Julie Thorndyke is a graduate of the University of Sydney Master of Creative Writing program, Sydney writer Julie Thorndyke’s two collections of tanka poetry, Rick Rack and Carving Granite, were published by Ginninderra Press. Editor of Eucalypt: a tanka journal since 2017, Julie also writes fiction and other poetry forms. Her debut novel for adults, Mrs Rickaby’s Lullaby, was published in 2019.

Julie’s picture book Alice’s Shoe was published by MidnightSun in July 2023.