Julianna Thibodeaux is perhaps best known in her hometown of Indianapolis for her work as senior writer for the Indianapolis alternative newspaper Nuvo Newsweekly, to which she has contributed reviews, features, and news stories regularly since 1995. Thibodeaux earned awards for this writing (features, consumer reporting, and arts criticism categories) from the Society of Professional Journalists in 2010, 2007, and 2002. In 2011 she was awarded an Indiana Arts Commission Individual Artist Grant to complete her novel, The Mother's Room, and in 2002, she completed an Arts Council of Indianapolis Creative Renewal Fellowship to work on both creative writing and visual art. Her writing has appeared in ARTnews, New Art Examiner, and Native Peoples, among other national and regional publications. Recent fiction and poetry have been published Scribble (Baltimore, MD) and she has published author interviews on Kenyon Review online.

Thibodeaux served as editor-in-chief of arts indiana magazine for several years before pursuing a full-time freelance career. She serves frequently as guest lecturer and panelist on arts-related or writing topics, has taught journalism as an adjunct instructor at Butler University and Indiana University-Purdue University at Indianapolis, and continues to teach and develop creative writing courses at the Writers' Center of Indiana.

In 2009 Thibodeaux earned her MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts at Goddard College in Plainfield, Vermont. Her graduate research focused on the topics of mothering and creativity and their intersections. Thibodeaux holds a BA in Journalism with a minor in Psychology from Indiana University-Bloomington and she completed non-degree graduate work in English literature, creative writing, and art history at Indiana University-Purdue University at Indianapolis.

Thibodeaux supports the consciousness research of the Institute of Noetic Sciences as a long-time member and served on the boards of directors for the Writers' Center of Indiana and Central Indiana Friends of Jung for several years. She also enjoys Latin and swing dancing, running, and hiking.

She and her husband, Stefan, live with their three daughters and two dogs in a 1925 bungalow undergoing constant restoration and endless repairs. Their favorite place to spend time as a family is on the front porch.