Bio
Juliet Blackwell was born and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area, the youngest child of a military jet pilot from New York and a book-loving editor from Texas. She graduated with a degree in Latin American Studies from University of California, Santa Cruz, and went on to earn Masters degrees in both Anthropology and Social Work from the State University of New York, Albany.
While in graduate school Blackwell published several articles based on her fieldwork with immigrant families from Mexico and Viet Nam, as well as one full-length translation: Miguel León-Portilla’s seminal work, Endangered Cultures. She taught Medical Anthropology at SUNY-Albany, was producer for a BBC documentary about Vietnamese children left behind by US soldiers, and worked as an elementary school social worker in rural New York state. Upon her return to California, Blackwell put her amateur art forgery skills to work through the decorative painting, historical renovation, and domestic design studio she established and ran for more than a decade.
In addition to mainstream novels, Blackwell pens standalone paranormal mysteries such as The Séance Garden and Asylum Hotel, as well as the New York Times Bestselling Witchcraft Mysteries and Haunted Home Renovation series. She wrote the Agatha Award-nominated Art Lover’s Mystery series with her sister Carolyn, under the pseudonym Hailey Lind. She is past president of Northern California Sisters in Crime and former board member of Mystery Writers of America.
Blackwell divides her time between a happily haunted house in Northern California, a winery in the Bordeaux region of France, and a tiny apartment on the coast of Spain. She believes in the magic of language, travel, and cultural exchange to open hearts, minds, and souls.