Julie Checkoway
Julie Checkoway is an author and documentary filmmaker. She graduated from Harvard College, the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, and the Johns Hopkins Writing Seminars. She is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts individual artist grant and fellowships at writers’ colonies, including Yaddo. Her writing has appeared in the New York Times, Salt Lake Tribune and Huffington Post.
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The Three-Year Swim Club
In 1937 an ordinary school teacher on the island of Maui took a group of under privileged children, most of Japanese ancestry, and trained them…