Julie Orringer is the author of Luna, Phoenix, Queen, a finalist for the Kirkus Prize, as well as of three previous award-winning books: How to Breathe Underwater, The Invisible Bridge, and The Flight Portfolio, the basis for the 2023 Netflix series Transatlantic.
She is the winner of the Paris Review’s Plimpton Prize and the Northern California Book Award, and has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center at the New York Public Library, the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard, MacDowell, Yaddo, and the Hermitage Artists’ Residency; her work has been selected as required reading for all first-year students at Stanford. All of Orringer’s work has been published by Alfred A. Knopf, and her books have been translated into twenty languages. Her stories have appeared in numerous anthologies, including The Granta Book of the American Short Story and The Scribner Anthology of American Short Fiction.
She teaches at New York University, Stanford University, and Brooklyn College, and lives in Brooklyn, where she is at work on a new novel. More about Julie here.