Julie Anne Peters
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Personal life
Julie Anne Peters was born in Jamestown, New YorkJamestown, New York
Jamestown is a city in Chautauqua County, New York in the United States. The population was 31,146 at the 2010 census.The City of Jamestown is adjacent to Town of Ellicott and is at the southern tip of Chautauqua Lake...
, on 16 January 1952. When she was five, her family moved to the Denver suburbs in Colorado
Colorado
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. Her parents divorced when she was in high school
High school
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. She has three siblings: a brother, John, and two younger sisters, Jeanne and Susan.
Peters' first college degree was a Bachelor of Arts
Bachelor of Arts
A Bachelor of Arts , from the Latin artium baccalaureus, is a bachelor's degree awarded for an undergraduate course or program in either the liberal arts, the sciences, or both...
(B.A.) in elementary education with a minor in French
French language
French is a Romance language spoken as a first language in France, the Romandy region in Switzerland, Wallonia and Brussels in Belgium, Monaco, the regions of Quebec and Acadia in Canada, and by various communities elsewhere. Second-language speakers of French are distributed throughout many parts...
. She taught fifth grade for a year, until she and the principal mutually agreed that teaching was not the career for her.
Peters earned a Bachelor of Science
Bachelor of Science
A Bachelor of Science is an undergraduate academic degree awarded for completed courses that generally last three to five years .-Australia:In Australia, the BSc is a 3 year degree, offered from 1st year on...
degree in Computer and Management Science. During the next ten years, she worked as a research analyst, computer programmer, and systems engineer. She also earned a Masters in Business with emphasis in Information Systems, which confirmed "that computer science was not the field for her".
At this point, Peters began writing. Her books for young adults include Define "Normal" (2000), Keeping You a Secret
Keeping You a Secret
Keeping You a Secret is a young adult novel by Julie Anne Peters. It was first published in hardback in 2003. The paperback edition was released in 2005 and deals with mature themes. This novel is about a young girl discovering her sexuality and what it is like to experience homophobia...
(2003), Luna
Luna (novel)
Luna is a young adult novel, by Julie Anne Peters, and was first published in 2004.-Plot summary:The novel is told from the point of view of sixteen-year-old Regan. She struggles with the secret that her older brother, Liam, is transgender, and wants to transition and live as a girl named Luna...
(2004), Far from Xanadu (2005), and Between Mom and Jo
Between Mom and Jo
Between Mom and Jo is an American young adult novel by Julie Anne Peters, published in 2006.-Plot summary:The main character deals with the struggles of having two mothers, and later, their divorce.-External links:*, LibraryThing profile*...
(2006). Her young adult fiction frequently deals with LGBT
LGBT
LGBT is an initialism that collectively refers to "lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender" people. In use since the 1990s, the term "LGBT" is an adaptation of the initialism "LGB", which itself started replacing the phrase "gay community" beginning in the mid-to-late 1980s, which many within the...
issues. She has also written books for younger readers, such as the Snob Squad series.
She maintains a website
Website
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and a weblog.
Peters lives with her partner, Sherri Leggett, in Lakewood, Colorado
Lakewood, Colorado
Lakewood is a Home Rule Municipality that is the most populous city in Jefferson County, Colorado, United States. Lakewood is the fifth most populous city in the State of Colorado and the 172nd most populous city in the United States. The United States Census Bureau estimates that in April 1, 2010...
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Published works
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