Julienne is a Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing at Curtin University of Technology in Perth, Western Australia. She has more than ten years experience in teaching writing in a tertiary setting, and has previously taught at the University of Queensland, the University of Western Sydney and Griffith University.

Her first novel, Road Story, was written as part of her doctoral thesis in writing at the University of Queensland, where she worked under the supervision of Australian novelists Amanda Lohrey and Jan McKemmish. Road Story won the prestigious Australian/Vogel Award in 2004. More recently, Julienne has been the recipient of an Australia Council Grant from the Literature Board for New Work (2006) and an ArtsWA Grant for Writing (2007).

In the mid 1990's, Julienne and her partner relocated to Western Australia, where they now live in a  bush environment in the Perth hills.