Julie Jackson Flynn’s professional writing career spans more than two decades. Specializing in interior design, architecture, travel, education, and fashion, her published work encompasses human interest features, profiles, and reviews.
She has worked in public relations at MullenLowe (Dexter Shoes, Malden Mills, Dakini fashion, and Osram Sylvania accounts) and Merrimack College as well as in the subsidiary rights department in the trade divisions of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt and Addison-Wesley Longman.
A sampling of her interviews include Jean-Louis Dumas, chairman of Hermès, New York fashion designers Bill Blass and Calvin Klein and interior designers Sister Parish and Albert Hadley, Joanna Shimkus Poitier, Ivana Trump, Mark Hampton, Mario Buatta, Victoria Hagan, Susan Orsini, Paul Siskin, Jeffrey Bilhuber, Clodagh, Charlotte Moss, Chessy Rayner, Mica Ertegun, Kitty Hawks, Richard Keith Langham, Jed Johnson, and Keith Irvine and Thomas Fleming.
A sampling of her Boston design stories include interviews with Harvard Professor of Constitutional Law Laurence Tribe and his wife Carolyn, who ran the Newbury Galleries, Michael Carter, Susan Dearborn, Manuel de Santaren and Elizabeth Herbert.
For four years Jackson Flynn served as co-host and booking agent for “It’s All About Arts” on BNN-TV, Cable Channel 9, in Boston.
Her work has appeared in The Boston Globe, The Boston Globe magazine, Boston Magazine, The Boston Herald, Improper Bostonian, Beacon Hill Times, Design Times, Grand Circle Travel, Hamilton-Wenham Chronicle, Marblehead magazine, Marblehead Reporter, Lynn magazine, The Lynn Item, The Salem News, and the Bates College, Merrimack College and Pingree alumni magazines.
Jackson Flynn holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Bates College.