Julie Mae Madsen founded and edits WORK Literary Magazine and organizes and emcees First Wednesday Readings in Portland, Oregon. She works for an affordable housing non-profit as a proposal writer and project coordinator, manages and runs projectors for a local movie theater, and contracts for a micro enterprise non-profit and a musician's assistance foundation as a proposal writer. There are only two ways to make her slow down: let her sit quiet with her cats or let her garden with her chickens.