Julia Ridley Smith
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Julia Ridley Smith
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Writer. www.juliaridleysmith.com
Sex Romp Gone Wrong: Stories (Blair, 2024)
The Sum of Trifles (U of Georgia Press, 2021)
Not here much because I'm trying to write things and live IRL.
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A graphic for a Substack post, showing the book cover of Sex Romp Gone Wrong and part of a headshot of Julia where my face is bisected but at least you get the hair which was actually styled that day.
April 30, 2025 at 12:23 PM
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Proud to have a new story, "Mrs. Foxfur," in the Missouri Review. Big thanks to the editors and readers there. This story started out as a fairy tale retelling and kind of morphed into I don't know what. missourireview.com/article/mrs-...
Cover of Missouri Review showing the full silhouette of a dark-coated person's back and a tree on a hill overlooking a town at dusk with the windows lit up.
January 27, 2025 at 6:14 PM
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Introducing myself here. My books are SEX ROMP GONE WRONG (Blair 2024), and THE SUM OF TRIFLES (UGAP 2021). I love coffee, cheese, long walks, and costume dramas. Don't post a lot but I like connecting with fellow writers and readers who have a wry sense of humor and a compassionate sensibility.
A photo of a stack of books and two books standing up facing outward. The Sex Romp Gone Wrong book cover features hot pink lettering and a black and white photo of a woman blowing out cigarette smoke that obscures part of her face. The Sum of Trifles has a white book cover picturing a vaguely hourglass shaped porcelain object made of a laser-cut teacup set atop an upside-down teacup. This object is an artwork by Elizabeth Alexander.
January 10, 2025 at 4:48 PM