Julie Fingersh

Author of Stay (BenBella Books)

Julie Fingersh is a writer, freelance journalist and, most recently, the author of Stay: A Story of Family, Love & Other Traumas, a literary memoir to be released October 15, 2024 by Rowman & Littlefield. Julie’s personal essays, editorials, and reporting cover culture, wellness, parenting adult children, cooking, and how to lead a more sane and meaningful life. Julie’s work has appeared in The New York Times, Oprah Magazine, The San Francisco Chronicle, The Huffington Post, The Miami Herald, Kansas City Star, Businessweek, Grown and Flown and more. Her Substack newsletter, Take My Advice. I’m Not Using It, is a midlife sequel of an award-winning humorist column she wrote in New York City in her twenties for Billboard Publications, Inc. Julie also served as the founding executive director of Boston Cares, which became a nationally recognized model for community and corporate partnerships and recently celebrated its third decade of service. She was a regular guest on NPR and other media outlets and recruited Secretary of State General Colin Powell (Ret.) to share the
stage as the keynote speaker for Boston’s first-ever day of citywide corporate service. A Kansas City native, she has two adult children and lives with her husband in Marin County, California.