Julie Anne Pattee is a freelance writer who lives in Montreal. She's held various positions at Global, CTV and MAtv. She's been published in The Globe and Mail, The Ottawa Citizen, The Montreal Gazette and other Postmedia papers. She was long listed for the Carte Blanche creative non-fiction prize in 2014, and the CBC creative-non-fiction prize in 2016. She has a master's degree in Communication Studies from McGill.