Julianna Thibodeaux is a Boston-area writer and artist and a part-time assistant professor of Liberal Arts at Montserrat College of Art.
Recent publications include Art New England, Big Red & Shiny, Booth, and Ruminate Online. Recognitions include several first place awards from the Society of Professional Journalists, a fiction award from Glimmer Train Stories, and grants from the Marblehead Cultural Council, Arts Council of Indianapolis, and Indiana Arts Commission.
In 2014 she founded Marblehead Writers’ Workshop, which offers creative writing courses across Boston’s North Shore in venues such as the JCC, the Marblehead Arts Association, and the Marblehead Museum. In addition to her community teaching, she teaches liberal arts courses at Montserrat College of Art (Native American Art, Italian Renaissance Art, Reading and Critical Thinking, Research and Rhetoric, Humanities I and II, and Creative Nonfiction). She also shares her passion for writing through her work as a writing coach and tutor.
Julianna is currently in the final revision stages of a novel and in the drafting stages of a memoir. As the daughter of artists, she also paints and is an obsessive photographer (the photos you see on this website are hers).
She holds an MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts from Goddard College and a BA in Journalism from Indiana University.