Julia Polland is a full-time Master of Social Work student at Quinnipiac University, Graduate School of Health and Science. After completing her undergraduate degree at the University of Connecticut with a BA in Psychology, she relocated to central Arkansas to pursue a career in mental health, working in the field of psychiatric research. She now resides in southeastern, CT, less than a year from graduation! In her free time she enjoys reading classical lit, writing and painting. She is an aspiring author and part-time mental health worker. Her favorite authors are, Sylvia Plath, Vladimir Nabokov, Leo Tolstoy, Upton Sinclair, and Lewis Carroll - to name a few. She also enjoys the poetry of Shel Silverstein and Adrienne Rich. Her favorite book to date is The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera. Much of her inspiration is drawn from her interest in the classics and her experience as a social worker and psychiatric researcher.