Julie Salverson is a playwright, librettist, scholar and non-fiction writer who teaches at Queen’s University's Dan School of Drama and Music, and at the Royal Military College of Canada. She has published essays about the artist as witness, atomic culture, ethics and the imagination. Salverson has created projects in community engaged arts practice for many years, and works with groups to practice resiliency through the exchange and development of stories.  She wrote the libretto for the cartoon atomic opera Shelter (Juliet Palmer, composer) and is a member of the Playwright’s Guild of Canada.