Julie Dreyer Wang

Julie Dreyer Wang started her literary career at the Montreal Gazette after receiving a B.A. from McGill University.

Subsequently she founded and ran Wang Associates Health Communications in New York City and served as an adjunct professor of writing at New York University. After selling her business she realized there was more to life than earning money, studied landscape design and worked on the Blue Hill Peninsula of Maine, where she also ran a garden store and tea garden, Blue Poppy Garden.

Wang is co-author of Everything You Wanted to Know About Phobias But Were Afraid to Ask (Beaufort Books, 1981) and a contributor to White in America (2 Leaf Press, 2016). Her work has been published in New York Magazine, Psychology Today, Harper’s Bazaar, Vogue, Pharmaceutical Executive, Modern Medicine and online in Mused—the Bella Online Literary Review.

Wang has three children and three grandchildren. She currently divides her time between Montreal and Benin, West Africa where she and her partner, Guillaume Lonhoudjo, run Bio-Benin, an organic farm and non-profit that trains students to earn a living in restaurant cooking, beer brewing and organic farming. All proceeds from her latest book Africa Opened My Heart will go towards the work of Bio-Benin.