A lifelong English instructor, she has actually educated in schools and universities on 3 continents, yet her permanent home is a 6-acre farm in Woodstock, GA.. Her fiction has actually been released in various publications, consisting of The Georgia Testimonial, Gertrude Press, and Fiction International, and she obtained a respectable mention for The Best American Brief Stories 2018.

Her launching story collection PEOPLE WISH TO LIVE published with McSweeney's Books on October 26th, and includes brand-new tales and some formerly published in VQR, Shenandoah, The Arkansas International, MQR, The Southern Review, Kenyon Review, Copper Nickel, and others.

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He resides in Wichita, Kansas, with his wife and children, and he routes the Wichita State College composing program. Julie Ann Stewart gained an MFA from Spalding College and has actually published stories in Good River Journal, Litro Publication, PoemMemoirStory and Punch Drunk Press.