Juliette Roanoke is a registered nurse, writer, editor, and mental health advocate. She blends her career in nursing with her lifelong passion for writing to illuminate issues in healthcare and society. Her focuses include destigmatizing the conversation surrounding mental health issues and standing up against domestic violence in a way only someone who has been there can.
She graduated from the University of West Georgia with a Bachelor of Science in Nursing. During nursing school, she clawed her way out of a dangerously abusive marriage and went on to raise her now 17-year-old daughter. She now has two children, and much of her writing is based on her personal experiences with parenting, abusive relationships, her own mental health disorders, and healthcare advice from a nurse on the frontlines.
She has fourteen years of experience as an RN, and is equally as fulfilled with her eight years in critical care at Emory University’s Neuroscience Unit and subsequent travel nursing as a Covid ICU nurse throughout the pandemic, as she is now that she’s settled into the hospice specialty. After serving as a home hospice case manager and on-call nurse for four years, she was promoted into a role as a clinical manager, where she continues to improve the quality of her patient’s deaths while guiding their loved ones through crises and grief.
Her lived experiences, knowledge base, and skills set her apart as a writer and advocate. Since 2019, she's used her unique position to reach and help even more people by becoming a contributing writer and editor for Medium's biggest Mental Health publication,Invisible Illness, which has grown to have more than 100,000 followers. There, she curates and coaches new writers to ensure their stories are polished and offer the best reader experience possible. She strongly believes that everyone has a voice worth listening to and important stories to share—stories that, collectively, can save lives just by sharing. She believes such platforms are necessary avenues to further reduce the stigma around behavioral health issues by increasing communication and, ultimately, building understanding.
