Julie Vandervoort has received several awards for her creative non-fiction essays and her biography of Dr. Elinor Black, Tell the Driver. She produced a piece called "Moving from Coping to Creating" for a national law conference and was recently invited as a keynote speaker at the conference Imagining Amsterdam: Visions and Revisions.She has given many public readings across Canada and in Mexico, served on the board of The Writer's Federation of Nova Scotia and as associate fiction editor for The Antigonish Review. She has worked extensively in human rights law and as an environmental activist and singer with the international Gaia Project. This project produced a double CD in 2003 (O Beautiful Gaia: Love Songs to Earth) and a 2007 CD of music inspired by the Earth Charter (My Heart is Moved). She lives in Halifax, Nova Scotia.