Julie Ries

Julie Ries is a writer of historical fiction at work on her first novel. Her fiction has appeared in Guernica, McSweeney's Internet Tendency, Ark/angel, and was longlisted for the Fish Short Story Prize by Colum McCann. She holds a B.A. from Yale University and an M.F.A. from New York University. Set among Cornish-Californian gold miners at the turn of the last century, her story "Beneath" was inspired by a tour of a mine and its haunting records of greed and sacrifice.