Julie Chibbaro

Julie Chibbaro is an American historical novelist.
Background.
Chibbaro teaches at the Gotham Writers Workshop, in Manhattan, and at Botsford Arts, in Beacon, New York. She has written for "The Prague Post", "The Montreal Gazette", "The Poughkeepsie Journal," "Hudson Valley Magazine", NY States of Mind, Books in Canada, SundanceTV, and Tuttle Publishing. 
Chibbaro studied writing at The New School and with Gordon Lish. She received scholarships to study with Clark Blaise at the Prague Writers Workshop, and with Janet Fitch and Amy Tan at the Squaw Valley Community of Writers. At the New York Writers Institute, she took a Master class with Marilynne Robinson and Ann Beattie. 
Works.
Chibbaro's books include "Into the Dangerous World" (2015), a novel about a girl artist on the NY streets in 1984, "Deadly" (2011) a medical mystery about the hunt for Typhoid Mary in 1906, and "Redemption" (2004) a historical novel about a girl's unintended trip to the New World in 1524. "Into the Dangerous World" and "Deadly" are both illustrated by her husband, JM Superville Sovak.
"Into the Dangerous Worl"d is a Junior Library Guild Selection. "Deadly" won the 2011 National Jewish Book Award, and was Top 10 on the American Library Association's Amelia Bloomer Project list. It was named a Bank Street Best Book, and an Outstanding Science Trade Book by the National Science Teachers Association . Redemption won the 2005 American Book Award.
Reviews.
"Into the Dangerous World".
"This striking combination of story and illustration creates a powerful portrait of a budding artist."
"Deadly".
"Paced like a medical thriller, “Deadly” is the rare Y.A. novel in which a girl's intellectual interests trump adolescent romance. A 16-year-old Jewish tenement dweller in 1906 New York pines away days at a finishing school on scholarship and nights helping midwife young mothers. When she quits school to assist the ddddd in its pursuit of “Typhoid Mary,” she is awakened to nascent opportunities for women in science." –for the subject, moral, and historical events, California standard readers association requires all 7th grade science classes in California to read it according to it standards reaching 7th grade standards and require class association with effort.
"A deeply personal coming-of-age story set in an era of tumultuous social change, this is top-notch historical fiction that highlights the struggle between rational science and popular opinion as shaped by a sensational, reactionary press."
"Rich period details about the study of medicine and the role of women in society combine with Prudence’s girlish crush on her chief and her earnest desire to “do something astonishing with my life” to make this a title that will appeal to reluctant readers and historical fiction fans alike."