Julia Elliott is a writer of fiction, and winner of the 2012 Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Award for beginning women writers.
Elliott received her MFA from Penn State in 1996, [1] and a Ph.D. from University of Georgia in 2012. [2] Her debut short-story collection The Wilds was published by Tin House in 2014. In 2016 she was awarded the Shared Worlds Residency by Amazon.com. [3] She teaches at University of South Carolina in Columbia. [2]