Julie Hawkins

J.D.R. Hawkins is an Amazon, USA Today and Wall Street Journal bestselling, award winning author. She is one of a few female Civil War authors, uniquely describing the front lines from a Confederate perspective. Her "Renegade Series" includes "A Beautiful Glittering Lie," winner of the 2013 John Esten Cooke Fiction Award and the 2012 B.R.A.G. Medallion, "A Beckoning Hellfire," also an award winner, and "A Rebel Among Us," winner of the 2017 John Esten Cooke Fiction Award. The fourth book in the series, Double-Edged Sword, has received the 2022 B.R.A.G. Medallion, as well as the 2023 John Esten Cooke Fiction Award. All four books tell the story of a family from north Alabama who experience immeasurable pain when their lives are dramatically changed by the Civil War. She has also written a nonfiction book about the War Between the States titled "Horses in Gray." Ms. Hawkins is a member of the United Daughters of the Confederacy, the International Women's Writing Guild, Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers, and Pikes Peak Writers. She is also an artist and a singer/songwriter. Learn more about her at http://jdrhawkins.com.