Julia Liz Elliott
Julia Elliott’s writing has appeared in Tin House , The Georgia Review , Conjunctions , The New York Times , Granta , and other publications. She has won a Rona Jaffe Writer’s Award, and her stories have been anthologized in Pushcart Prize: Best of the Small Presses and The Best American Short Stories . Her debut story collection, The Wilds , was chosen by Kirkus , BuzzFeed , Book Riot , and Electric Literature as one of the Best Books of 2014 and was a New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice. In a first for me I'm having another reviewer describe Julia's book. Why? Because her review is so damn good and spot on! Review by Erin Butler-Mayes: Julia Elliott’s rich storytelling sends the reader slipping through time into unsettling, yet familiar, lands. The weather and landscapes become characters themselves through Elliott’s vivid imagery. In the titular story, "Hellions," the sweltering, oppressive humidity of the South is just as unsettling as The Swamp Ape th...
