Julia Fierro’s debut novel, Cutting Teeth, will be published by St. Martin’s Press in spring 2014. Her work has appeared, or is forthcoming, in Guernica Magazine, The Millions, Poets & Writers, Flavorwire, and other publications. Julia is a graduate of The Iowa Writers’ Workshop, where she was a Teaching-Writing Fellow. 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 2,000 writers.
Julia Fierro
Articles by Julia Fierro
Tuesday September 30
In Cold Blood: Practicing Our Humanity on the Page
In a great book, even the most despicable characters have a chance for redemption, perhaps, one might argue, more of a chance than he or she might get in real life.
Monday September 9
The PEN Ten with Julia Fierro
John F. Kennedy said, “Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.” I’d revise that message: “Forgive your enemy, but never forget their story.”