Julie is a Burruberongal woman of the Darug Aboriginal nation, living on the South Coast of NSW. She is a novelist, playwright, and poet. Her newest novel is Compassion (2024). Previous novels include Madukka the River Serpent (2022) - long listed for the Miles Franklin Literary award 2023, and Benevolence (2020) - shortlisted for the Barbara Jefferis Award 2022, nominated for the NIB Literary Award 2020, and the Voss Literary Award 2020. Julie is co-recipient of the Oodgeroo Noonuccal Poetry Prize 2016, and the Judith Wright Poetry Prize 2019. Julie's poems have been published in the Overland Magazine. 

Her career as a playwright began with productions at Belvoir St Theatre, Adelaide Festival Centre and Sydney Opera House Studio. Her plays, Black Mary and Gunjies, are produced in Australia, USA and Indonesia.