Bio

Julia Clay lives in the valley of the Shenandoah in the Shadow of the Massanutten when she is not traveling around the western United States. Always a reader, as a child she read Michener’s Hawaii when she was home sick with the flu and then went on to read everything in her parent’s library from Romeo and Juliet to Nevil Shute’s On the Beach. This early grounding in reading served her well as she racked up degrees and accomplishments in the middleworld.

In midlife - she heard the Summons of the Soul, what began as a whisper transformed into the Roaring of the Sacred River and this led her to quest for a vision. She became an apprentice to Dream Work, Soulcraft, and deepened her commitment to writing. The visual artist long dormant surfaced as she began to draw and create beauty in new and innovative ways. Four long years she labored in the underworld - romancing her shadow, learning the imaginal language of the soul, locating and retrieving lost fragments of her Self.

Emerging from the underworld, she now continues her twin tasks of writing and drawing. She travels through blogland as a Soulwright while continuing to develop her interests  in “story as medicine,” dreams as messages from the unconscious in support of our healing, and seeking the wisdom of divinity that resides in each of us - the Sacred Masculine and the Sacred Feminine.

She writes because she must - there is no other way.