Julie Staub was born in Minneapolis MN. She grew up with her five sisters, her parents and a dog beside one of Minnesota’s small lakes. Her favorite words to hear growing up were, “Now you girls go outside and play.”

Julie graduated from Earlham College, a Quaker college in Richmond, Indiana, in 1979 with a degree in Religious Studies. At Earlham, she had the good fortune of rooming with a Jane Cadwallader from Iowa, who introduced Julie to her big brother, Warren. They were married in a Quaker ceremony in 1979, had three children, and moved to Vermont in 1992, where they joined the Burlington Friends Meeting (Quaker) and then the College Street Congregational Church (United Church of Christ) in 1995. Julie and Warren Cadwallader-Staub were married for 23 years, until his death from multiple myeloma at the age of 49.

Julie earned a Masters of Social Work degree at Rutgers University in 1984. She has served as Executive Director of the Maternity Care Coalition of Philadelphia, the Vermont Campaign to End Childhood Hunger and the Child Care Fund of Vermont. She was the Vice President for community grantmaking at the Vermont Community Foundation before taking her current position, as the Grants Director for the Burlington School District. Her poems have been featured on Garrison Keillor’s The Writer’s Almanac, published in journals, included in anthologies, and she was awarded a Vermont Council on the Arts grant for poetry in 2001.

Her first collection of poems, Face to Face, was published by Cascadia Publishing House in Telford PA in June 2010.