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Author Bio
Birth—ca. 1977
Where—Turin, Italy
Raised—on Long Island, New York, USA
Education—B.A., American University; M.F.A., Iowa
   Writers' Workshop
Currently—lives in Brooklyn, New York City, New York


Julia Fierro's debut novel, Cutting Teeth by HuffPost Books, The Millions, Flavorwire, Brooklyn Magazine, and Marie Claire. Her work has been published, or is forthcoming, in Guernica, Ploughshares, Poets & Writers, Glamour, and other publications, and she has been profiled in the L Magazine, The Observer, and The Economist.

In 2002, she founded the Sackett Street Writers' Workshop, and what started as eight writers meeting in her Brooklyn kitchen has grown into a creative home for over 2,500 writers.

Julia is a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop, where she was a Teaching-Writing Fellow, and currently teaches the Post-MFA workshops at Sackett Street. She lives in Brooklyn with her husband and two children. (From Amazon.com and the author's website.)