About the Author

Julia Antoinette Rosenstein is a storyteller with passion for capturing lives that defy convention.

Julia Antoinette Rosenstein

Julia Rosenstein

What advice or words of wisdom do you have for fellow writers – other than run!? I am hardly one to give anyone advice. I can only suggest that people need to follow their hearts, and that is probably a cliché.

Julia Antoinette Rosenstein is an award-winning artist and author. She has art in her DNA. Her great-grandfather and grandmother were painters. Her mother was an artist. So are several of her siblings. She lived in the Bay Area for 18 years with artist Jonathan David Batchelor. He is the subject of her debut book, Last Bohemian: The Life and times of Janathan David Batchelor.
She attended Mills College in Oakland, CA. She held various jobs, ranging from hot dog stand worker and security guard, to cocktail waitress, pretzel maker, and corporate call center work. She found her calling as an artist but was unable to make a living by painting.
A former member of North West Oil Painters Guild, she won a ribbon for the drawing of a mare and foal at The Society of Washington Artists. A few years later, in 2010, she won a Judge’s Choice Award for an oil painting she did of a friend and her daughter.
Born in Adrian, Michigan, her family moved when she was 10 to Moraga, California. She left California in 2005 after her house burned down, and now resides in Vancouver, Washington. For more information, please see: www.wildhorseart.com
Not diagnosed until she was in her 40s, Rosenstein is on the spectrum for Autism.