Juliet Cutler is a writer, an educator, and a designer of award-winning exhibits for museums, parks, and cultural centers around the world. In 1999 and 2000, she lived in Tanzania where she taught English at the first school for Maasai girls in East Africa. In her first book Among the Maasai, Juliet recounts her experiences as a young American teacher working in a context where women and girls face unimaginable challenges. Twenty-five years later, she illustrates the positive impacts of educating women and girls in her second book Lessons in Hope, which features the stories of Maasai women working in education, healthcare, government, nonprofits, and business. The book will be released in September 2025.
Juliet’s writing has received numerous awards including the Independent Publisher Book Award, the National Indie Excellence Award, and the Independent Book Publishers Association Book Award, one of the highest American honors for independently published books. Juliet holds a Master of Arts in English from Colorado State University and a Bachelor of Science in education from the University of North Dakota. She currently lives with her husband Mark near Atlanta. She regularly travels to Tanzania to support causes that uplift Maasai women and girls. All proceeds from the sales of her books support these causes.