Writing & Interviews

• Plates in the Air: An Interview with Julia Fierro, 12th Street: The Journal of Writing and Democracy by the New School Riggio Honors Program Students

• Writing as Redemption: Rewriting A Scene to Rewrite Your Life, Poets & Writers

• Julia Fierro’s The Gypsy Moth Summer is a Lesson in Race and Class, Canadian Living
• “Island Girl: Cutting Teeth author Julia Fierro on her new novel, The Gypsy Moth Summer” Real Style Magazine
• Trouble in Paradise: The Millions Interviews Julia Fierro
• Interview at Midwestern Gothic magazine
• The Gypsy Moth Summer, Los Angeles as Zoloft, and Writing for an Audience of One: An Interview with Julia Fierro, MILK podcast

• The Secret of My Success? Antidepressants, The New York Times
• Julia Fierro’s new novel, ‘The Gypsy Moth Summer,’ is set in a fictional ’90s LI community, Newsday
• Gypsy Moth Summer author Julia Fierro on founding Sackett Street Writers Workshop, AMNewYork
• The 3 Tiers of Point of View Technique: Observation, Interpretation & Imagination: a craft essay by Julia Fierro, Writer Unboxed
• Writers on Writing radio interview, KUCI-FM in Irvine, CA
• Is Everyone A Writer? A Conversation with Julia Fierro, Signature Reads
• The Story Behind the Book: The Boston Globe
• The Secret, Violent History of My Childhood Home: a personal essay, Literary Hub
• Listen to Julia Fierro read The Gypsy Moth Summer prologue, Poets & Writers
• The Secrets of Moth Poop: An Interview with Julia Fierro, Chicago Review of Books
• Only People Can Let Us Down: An interview with Julia Fierro on mental health, the limits of empathy, and the necessity of suffering, Guernica
• Writing America: An interview with Julia Fierro, Center for Fiction
• Q&A with Angels Flight Literary West magazine
• 8 Books Set on an Island to Escape with This Summer: a reading list by Julia Fierro
• Reading with Julia Fierro, Shelf Awareness
• Other People podcast interview, episode 472

• Required Reading: The 50 Fictional Women We’re Obsessed With, Brooklyn Magazine

December 2015

• “Capelli Lunghi” (an essay) published in the anthology, “Me, My Hair and I: 27 Women Untangle an Obsession,” edited by Elizabeth Benedict and published by Algonquin Books, Sept 2015

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Dec 2013

• Ploughshares’ One Year In—Writing The Novel: Julia Fierro

My responses on a variety of novel-writing topics, including how “not writing” can turn out be a good thing; confessions of my many one-night-stands with novels; writing while working; writing while parenting; self-loathing; motivation; sharing your work, and the ways I tricked myself into not giving up in the 10+ years it took me to reach publication.

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Nov 2013

• Publishing and Prejudice: 5 Female Writers Weigh in on Sexism in the Literary World, Brooklyn Based

It’s an honor to be included in this thought-provoking article on sexism in the literary world along with four seriously brilliant writers (who also have a great sense of humor), Roxane Gay, Adelle Waldman, Lydia Millet & Ayelet Waldman.

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Sept 2013

• Julia’s PEN American Center interview featured on Maria Popova’s Brain Pickings‘ EXPLORE, and Andrew Sullivan’s THE DISH.

• Julia Fierro of the Sackett Street Writers’ Workshop: BROOKLYN LIT 101 – profile in Brooklyn Magazine‘s “BROOKLYN 20” issue.Interview by Kristin Iversen

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July 2013

• Flavorwire Exclusive: Authors Write About Their Favorite Streets in Literature

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May 2013

• How an Ex-Catholic and Jewish Atheist Talk to Their Kids About God: Kveller

• My Time Was Spent Years Ago: A Conversation with Writers and Mothers Aimee Phan and Julia Fierro: Her Kind: A Literary Community powered by VIDA: Women in the Literary Arts, May 2013

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March 2013

• A Sentimental Education: Sex and the Literary Writer : The Millions on 3/27/13 Also featured on Andrew Sullivan’s The Dish

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Feb 2013

• ‘Dark’ and ‘Funny’ Novel Explores Lives of Cobble Hill Parents–Cutting Teeth featured in article on DNAInfo.com

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Dec 2012

• Inventory, an excerpt from my novel, Cutting Teeth (St. Martin’s Press, 2014), was included in Guernica Magazine‘s end-of-days issue, which ran the week of 12/21/12.

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Nov 2012

• My personal essay, Salvaged, about the recovery of my parents’ home after it was nearly devastated by hurricane Sandy, was publishedin Underwater New York.