Author

Julia Ridley Smith is the author of a short story collection, Sex Romp Gone Wrong (Blair, 2024), and a memoir in essays, The Sum of Trifles (University of Georgia Press, 2021). Her fiction and essays have appeared in Alaska Quarterly Review, Cincinnati Review, Ecotone, Electric Literature, the New England Review, the Southern Review, and elsewhere. She is a teaching assistant professor of creative writing at UNC–Chapel Hill.