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Julia Elliott

Southern Surrealist

Julia Elliott

Julia Elliott is the author of the story collection Hellions, a TIME book of the month, and the story collection The Wilds, a New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice (all from Tin House). She has won a Rona Jaffe Writer’s Award, and her stories have been anthologized in Best American Short Stories and Pushcart Prize: Best of the Small Presses.

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Featured Work

Hellions Stories

Hellions Stories

Winner of the 2026 Carol Shields Prize for FictionFinalist for the 2026 Southern Book PrizeA TIME Best Book of the Month“I am obsessed with these lush, feral stories.”―Carmen Maria Machado, author of Her Body and Other Parties “Beautiful, visceral, surprising stories, both wild and dangerous, with a Southern twang but universal appeal. Elliott is an Angela Carter for […]

The Wilds

The Wilds

At an obscure South Carolina nursing home, a lost world reemerges as a disabled elderly woman undergoes newfangled brain-restoration procedures and begins to explore her environment with the assistance of strap-on robot legs. At a deluxe medical spa on a nameless Caribbean island, a middle-aged woman hopes to revitalize her fading youth with grotesque rejuvenating […]

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This B Just Won’t Die! Wounds: Six Stories from the Border of Hell When These Mountains Burn The Phlebotomist Beneath a Fallen Sky The Wilds The Inconsolables Stay On The Line Bless Your Heart The Shop on Royal Street The Returned In the Valley Of the Sun The Afterlife of Edgar Allan Poe The Cicada Tree Devil Inside On Sundays She Picked Flowers