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Birth—June 12, 1973
Where—Miami, Florida, USA
Education—B.A., Cornell University; M.F.A., University of Iowa; Stegner Fellowship, Stanford University
Awards—Ploughshares Cohen Award; Paris Review’s Plimpton Prize for Fiction
Currently—lives in Brooklyn, New York City, New York


Julie Orringer is a short story writer and author of two higly acclaimed works of historical fiction. Both were bestsellers. The Invisible Bridge was published in 2010, and The Flight Portfolio in 2019.

Orringer is a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop and Cornell University, and was a Stegner Fellow in the Creative Writing Program at Stanford University. Her stories have appeared in the Paris Review, Yale Review, Ploughshares, Pushcart Prize Anthology, and Zoetrope: All-Story. She lives in Brooklyn, New York City. (From the publisher.)