Welcome to the web site of Julie Fontenot Landry. A Louisiana native, she is the author, co-author, or translator of works for children ​and adults, many of them incorporating Louisiana history and folklore.

Landry is the daughter of the late Louisiana legend Mary Alice Fontenot, with whom she collaborated on numerous projects, including writing the music, lyrics, and piano arrangements for many of the books in the Clovis Crawfish series, which Landry has now taken over.

Landry earned a Ph.D. in English from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. Her dissertation, Kudzu, Oak, and Pine, was a collection of short stories on Louisiana topics. 

In addition to English, Landry speaks and writes the French of her Acadian ancestors and translates from one to the other, notably on the Clovis Crawfish series. She was awarded the CODOFIL prize for French prose in 1995.

Since her retirement from forty-five years as a teacher and school administrator, Landry has continued to write and has resumed painting, which she had set aside for many years.