Julia Strayer writes haunting stories of longing and loss where nothing, at first, is quite as it seems.Her writing appears in, or is forthcoming at, Glimmer Train, Kenyon Review Online, Indiana Review, Post Road, SmokeLong Quarterly, Mid-American Review and others. She won the Glimmer Train Short Story Award for New Writers, was a finalist in the Iowa Review Awards Fiction Contest, Indiana Review 1/2K Prize, and The Best Small Fictions 2017. Her work was twice nominated for the Pushcart Prize,