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Julien St. James writes stories about people caught between worlds—a perspective earned through a childhood that hopscotched from London to Minnesota, the Philippines , Turkey, Germany and then to the DC suburbs.

Those years of constant relocation taught him to watch carefully and listen deeply. The fishing villages of the Philippines and Turkey left the deepest mark—places where tradition and change collided daily. Later, working overseas in the UK, Netherlands, and Sweden, he returned to these communities, collecting the stories that would surface in his fiction.

In 2015, Julien and his wife of 40 years relocated to Austin, Texas, drawn by its literary scene. When he's not writing, he sketches urban landscapes and plots his next novel.

His books include Perfect Attachment (Inspector Maja Nordic noir series), Love Notes and Sticky Tape (literary fiction), and Lint Socks and Rock Paper Scissors (absurdist humor, written as Henri Penuer). What connects them: characters navigating the weight of tradition while charting their own course forward.