Julia StocktonJulia Stockton grew up in Knoxville, where her father was an English professor at the University of Tennessee. Her parents both suffered catastrophic illnesses and at an early age she went to live with her aunt and uncle in Greenville, SC. During hig school she went to the Phillips Exeter Academy in New Hampshire and from there entered Yale University were she was very unhappy. Julia found her way to central North Carolina and began working in restaurants to support herself. She waited tables, baked, developed recipes and menus, all the while earning a BA from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The two themes of food and language shaped her adult life. Julia was in a writing group for decades, led by a beloved English professor, Robert Kirkpatrick. It was said that Julia could dissect a poem and find what's wrong with it at warp speed, the same speed at which she could whip up a key lime pie. Anyone who knew Julia even slightly knew she had a keen eye and sharp tongue for criticism. A skill she used to refine her own superlative poetry. Read More Read Less