Julia Tagliere

Julia Tagliere is a freelance writer and editor and studied in the M.A. in Creative Writing program at DePaul University in Illinois. Her work has appeared in The Writer, Hay & Forage Grower, and in multiple online publications. Julia’s debut novel, Widow Woman, was published in 2012. In 2014, Open to Interpretation, the juried photography and prose series, selected Julia’s short story, “The Navigator,” for publication in Love + Lust, its fourth and final installment. Another of her recent stories, “Te Absolvo,” won Best Short Story in the 2015 William Faulkner Literary Competition. Her personal essay, “Stars I Will Find,” appears in the anthology Here In The Middle: Stories Of Love, Loss, And Connection From The Ones Sandwiched In Between, a collection of stories about the challenges of simultaneously caring for young children and aging parents. An active blogger and past finalist in Minneapolis’ Loft Literary Center’s Mentor Series Competition, Julia resides in Maryland with her family, where she is currently pursuing her M.A. in Fiction Writing at Johns Hopkins University.