Julia Elliott is a writer of fiction, and winner of the 2012 Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Award for beginning women writers.

Elliott received her MFA from Penn State in 1996,[1] and a Ph.D. from University of Georgia in 2012.[2] Her debut short-story collection The Wilds was published by Tin House in 2014. In 2016 she was awarded the Shared Worlds Residency by Amazon.com.[3] She teaches at University of South Carolina in Columbia.[2]

References

  1. ↑ "Department alumna, Julia Elliott (MFA, 1996), will receive a 2012 Rona Jaffe Foundation Writer's Award". Pennsylvania State University. Retrieved July 10, 2015.
  2. 1 2 "Former Athenian Julia Elliott Returns with Her Debut Book". The Georgia Review. October 2, 2014. Retrieved July 10, 2015.
  3. ↑ "Elliott Awarded Shared Worlds Residency". locusmag.com. Retrieved April 16, 2016.


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