JULIA SCHEERES' essays, articles and book reviews have been published in the New York Times, Elle, New York, Marie Claire, O Magazine, Wired and other publications. Her second book, A Thousand Lives: the Untold Story of Jonestown, won the Northern California Independent Bookseller Association's Nonfiction Book of the Year award. She lives in Berkeley, California and is a member of the San Francisco Writers' Grotto.