Julia Fierro

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.


Articles by Julia Fierro

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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.”