About

Julia Nikolich, the last millennial, or at least born in the last year of the millennials, started life in Pennsylvania.

I then moved to Georgia and so far they haven’t kicked me out. Atlanta is a cool place, all things considered. A city with trees and no functional public transport. A lot of things to do and somehow nothing too touristy. I moved to Atlanta proper in 2013 when I started Georgia Tech as a Biochemistry major (laughs). I stayed after graduating with a business degree in 2018.

While I was at GaTech, and while I was still a biochem major, I took a physics class. The professor of this class is one of the best teachers I’ve ever had, and possesses an unmatched love of physics. Anyone who was at tech around the same time might be able to guess who he is. Well one day, this professor came to class with an extra large coffee and bags under his eyes. We were supposed to talk about magnetism, and he, at like midnight, shot out of bed with a new idea for teaching it, and then spend 4 hours redoing his slides. He couldn’t sleep with the ideas bouncing around in his head. He had to work on it. Right then. No matter what. This professor then turned to the whole lecture hall and said something I will never forget. “Whatever it is you decide to do with your life, wherever your career takes you, make sure it’s something that keeps you up all night because it’s just that exciting to you.”

Those words were why I changed from Biochemistry. It kept me up all night, but it didn’t excite me. I switched to business, and it was fun. But I never stayed up all night (willingly). I continued doing theater and making costumes, but always wanted to stop and go to bed.

Then, 6 years after hearing those words, in the middle of a pandemic, I was sitting down at my laptop, unable to get a character from a recent series out of my head, and opened Google Docs, and started writing. I didn’t stop. I had work the next day. And I didn’t stop. The sunset and the moon rose, and I didn’t stop. My partner snored next to me as a new day broke, and I didn’t stop.

And I realized that I knew what I wanted to do. What I had been doing since I was 10 years old. Where I let my mind wander to every night when I lay in bed, or when I was sitting in a car, or just sitting and day dreaming. I wanted to write. I wanted to put pen to paper (or fingers to keyboard) and turn my fantasies into a sharable reality.

So that’s what this site is. Why I’m here. I’m here to write and tell stories. I might deviate from that direct path, put up a blog post or something dissecting a show I just watched, or explaining my latest craft project. But ultimately I seek to publish novels.

I sure hope you read them when I do.

Oh, I also practice and teach Cuong Nhu martial arts.