About me
"Julia Benson-Slaughter has so many (figurative) hats that it’s hard for her to remember which she’s wearing at any given time. Maker, writer, tech geek, storyteller, pyromaniac, drummer, research guru, and cat slave are the ones she wears most frequently since retiring from teaching computer science at the local community college.
Julia became interested in arts & crafts at age seven, while spending the summer with her grandparents. She made the mistake of telling her grandmother that she was bored, so her grandmother showed her some basic embroidery stitches before sitting her down with a stamped piece of embroidery fabric, some colorful floss, and a needle. Over the decades, she ventured out into other needlecrafts and a failed stint at pottery before discovering handweaving. Handweaving led to spinning, crochet, basketry, and bookbinding. Eventually she discovered flameworked glass, which set her on her current jewelry-making path as the purple-haired creator of Noctua Designs’ eclectic chainmaille, metal, and glass jewelry.
She met her fellow author Michael Aurelius, of St. Cloud, MN, in the online flameworking forums somewhere around 2007. They began writing together in the early days of the COVID-19 lockdown, when they were both starting to go stir-crazy. A handful of story snippets that Mike originated has grown into the nine-book (as of April, 2025), three-part meta-series, Chronicles of the Multiverse. The original series, Chronicles of the Covenant, became a full-blown collaboration between the two of them, while Julia spun off a separate parallel universe with the Littleton Chronicles and Mike ventured off into the Chronicles of the Republic. Most of their work together is done online, though since 2022 they have met up each October at Multiverse Con for three days of collaborative shenanigans.
Julia lives in suburban Atlanta, GA, along with her black-belt martial artist husband and five cats."
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