Deemed "The Adele of Audiobooks" by The New Yorker, Julia Whelan is a writer, lifelong actor, and audiobook narrator of over 500 titles. She has won numerous awards, including Audible's Narrator of the Year and the Best Female Narrator Audie for Tara Westover's Educated. AudioFile Magazine has given her its lifetime achievement award, a "Golden Voice", and her performance of her own debut novel, the international bestseller My Oxford Year garnered a Society of Voice Arts award.

Her new novel, Thank You For Listening, was a Best of 2022 pick at Amazon, Audible, and NPR as well as a Golden Poppy winner and Goodreads Choice Award nominee. She is also a Grammy-nominated audiobook director, a former writing tutor, a half-decent amateur baker, and a certified tea sommelier.