She has made appearances in shows on national television like ABC's Good Morning America, The Martha Stewart Show, CBS's The Early Show and Food Network's Iron Chef America.

She has received Quill Award for Debut Author of the Year, James Beard Award for Magazine Feature Writing without Recipes and James Beard Award for Magazine Feature with Recipes.

Personal Life

Julie currently lives in Long Island City, Queens in New York. Apart from being a renowned writer, she loves cooking with her husband, Eric Powell. When she met Eric, he was an editorial manager at Archaeology magazine. After some time dating, the couple decided to settle their life in New York City.

In some of her most recent books, she uncovered a considerable measure of harsh realities from her marital life, including cheating and betrayals. The negative behavior included both Julie and her husband's. The book got an extensive wave of sharp reactions from the public on account of the openly revealed affairs. Currently, the couple does not have kids.

In Julie’s second book, The Cleaving, it addresses extramarital matters that she sought after as well as her husband’s extra desires. These occasions occurred after Powell's accomplishment as a writer. The tone and realistic content in these areas of Cleaving incited unsympathetic responses. Powell has reflected a surprising touch in her book at the heartless reactions she got, bringing up the fundamental part of genuineness in a memoir and eventually results of those extramarital affairs, as far as her marriage was concerned.

She was asked by Cosmopolitan why she thinks cheating is a taboo subject even though many men and women cheat, “It's taboo because it's terrifying. Americans have made an enormous emotional investment in the tenets of conventional marriage because it makes us feel safe. To portray a woman — especially a woman — having an affair that isn't "justified" by any lack in her husband, but comes out of real confusion, is to question the boundaries and rules people trust in.”

Since both of her most famous books were so different in terms of tone, Julie had to explain what her creative process was, “By the time I started publicizing Julie & Julia, my marriage had changed disastrously, and I did feel at times like I was being dishonest, though I wrote the truth about my relationship with Eric back then. One of the reasons I wrote Cleaving was to honor the difficulty of our marriage, and express how even the strongest of relationships go through dark periods. I'm a big believer in that little voice in your head. Following it can get messy (Cleaving is nothing if not a testament to that) but it will also get you to places you'd never see if you just kept toeing the line. If something is telling you to do something crazy, I think you should listen. If everyone else thinks you're insane, that might be a very good sign.”