Julie Wack has worked as a sculptor and a painter, and has an MFA in Visual Art. She also has a long-standing love of the theater, which led her to study playwriting and to direct a number of plays...view moreJulie Wack has worked as a sculptor and a painter, and has an MFA in Visual Art. She also has a long-standing love of the theater, which led her to study playwriting and to direct a number of plays over the years. One of the tasks of a director is to assist the actors in exploring the characters they are portraying onstage. When she decided to begin writing, she found that creating characters in her books and taking them through the twists and turns of the story was the most fulfilling act of creativity she had ever engaged in, and it led her to concentrate solely on writing.view less