She is currently residing in Nanaimo, British Columbia, where she is a professor of creative writing at Vancouver Island University.
Juby was born in Ponoka, Alberta,[1] and later moved to Smithers, British Columbia at the age of six.
[1] Juby began her first book as a journal which she wrote on the bus on the way to work and at a local coffee shop.
[3] Juby completed a master's degree in publishing (MPub) from Simon Fraser University in 2002.
[6] In 2010, Viking Canada published Nice Recovery, Juby's memoir tracing the time between her experience with teenage alcoholism until her sobriety at age 20.
The book features Helen Thorpe, a former buddhist nun turned butler, who finds herself embroiled in the mystery of who killed her former employer.
[9] On February 22, 2020,[10] Juby read excerpts from two as-yet-unpublished works at the Vancouver Island Regional Library's Nanaimo Harbourfront branch.