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Julia Fierro

Biography

Julia Fierro

Julia Fierro is the author of the novels THE GYPSY MOTH SUMMER and CUTTING TEETH. Her work has been published in The Millions, Poets & Writers, Buzzfeed, Glamour and other publications, and she has been profiled in The Observer and The Economist. A graduate of the Iowa Writer’s Workshop, Julia founded The Sackett Street Writers' Workshop in 2002, a creative home to more than 3,500 writers in NYC, Los Angeles and online. SSWW was named “Best Writing Classes” by The Village Voice, Time Out NY and “Best MFA-Alternative” by Poets & Writers. Julia lives in Brooklyn and Los Angeles.

Julia Fierro

Books by Julia Fierro

The Gypsy Moth Summer
by Julia Fierro - Fiction

It is the summer of 1992, and a gypsy moth invasion blankets Avalon Island. It is also the summer Leslie Day Marshall --- the only daughter of Avalon's most prominent family --- returns with her husband, a botanist, and their children to live in "The Castle," the island's grandest estate. Leslie's husband Jules is African-American, their children are bi-racial, and islanders from both sides of the tracks form fast and dangerous opinions about the new arrivals. Maddie Pencott LaRosa falls in love with Brooks, their son, and that love feels as urgent to Maddie as the questions about the new and deadly cancers showing up across the island. Could Grudder Aviation, the pride of the island --- and its patriarch, the Colonel --- be to blame?