Julia O'Brien was born in Sudbury, Ontario in 1997 and moved to a farm in Manitoba when she was 5. She was homeschooled her entire life, along with her four younger siblings. She started writing her first book when she was 12, and also writes poetry. When she was 14 years old she first started writing Tales of the Bonded: Salay during NaNoWriMo 2011 (National Novel Writing Month, in which people around the world commit to write a 50, 000 word novel in 30 days). Since then, Tales of the Bonded has gone through numerous changes and the story has evolved and grown.
Julia loves animals and has two horses, two dogs and a cat. She has graduated from highschool and plans on pursing a career in writing.
