Julia Park Tracey (’16, ’18) is the author of three novels: Tongues of Angels, Veronika Layne Gets the Scoop, and Veronika Layne Has a Nose for News; two collections of women’s history (I’ve Got Some Lovin’ to Do: The Diary of a Roaring Twenties Teen, and Reaching for the Moon: More Diaries of a Roaring Twenties Teen), and a volume of poetry, Amaryllis: Collected Poems (Scarlet Letter Press, 2nd ed. 2021). She was selected as Poet Laureate for the city of Alameda, California, in 2014-2017. Julia has written for Huffington Post, Salon, Paste, Scary Mommy, Thrillist, Redbook, Narratively, Oakland Magazine, San Francisco Chronicle Sunday Insight, and many other publications in print and online. The Bereaved, forthcoming in August 2023, tells of her third great-grandmother Martha, a poor widow, and the choices she made to survive with four hungry children as the Civil War erupted around her. Forthcoming in Fall 2024, Silence, tells of Julia’s eighth great-grandmother, Silence Greenleaf, who was punished by the Puritan Church in coastal Massachusetts, 1722, and spent a year in silence to fit her name.