Juliana Loomer

Juliana Loomer was born and raised in the creative hotbed of Northern California, just outside San Francisco. By 2007, she was an overworked and exhausted visual effects artist working in the film industry. After taking an opportunity for a well deserved rest, she found herself unable to sleep for weeks.

"Though it is hard to believe, the nights of sleeplessness were due to a man made of "shadow" that would stand next to my bed each night, telling me to write down a story about a girl that moves from California to Norway."

She agreed to write the story so she could get some sleep and in four weeks time, having never written anything before but emails, she had Child of the Jotun typed out for the "shadow man” that stood next to the bed.

With the encouragement of friends, she decided to travel to Norway to see if the people and places she had written about were at all accurate. To her excitement and fear, they were. Following the story has changed her life.

Juliana currently lives outside Bergen, Norway with her husband and is dedicated to writing down the stories that continue to be told to her.