Julia Whelan is a writer, lifelong actor, and award-winning audiobook narrator of over 500 titles across all genres. In addition to being named a Golden Voice by AudioFile Magazine, she won the 2019 Best Female Narrator Audie for Tara Westover’s Educated. Her performance of her own debut novel, the international bestseller My Oxford Year, garnered a Society of Voice Arts award. She is also a Grammy-nominated audiobook director, a former writing tutor, a half-decent amateur baker, and a certified tea sommelier. Her second novel, Thank You For Listening, a romcom set in the world of audiobooks, published in 2022.