Julie Zigoris and I have known each other since grad school, when she was in the Slavic Department writing about matters Russian. From her PhD work came her first book, Belomor: Criminality and Creativity in Stalin’s Gulag (Academic Studies Press, 2014, as Julie Draskoczy). Through the magic of Facebook, we've stayed in touch and come to know each other a little better, which is how we discovered that both of us were planning to attend the AWP writers' conference in 2019. Two Slavicists who are also fiction writers!
Julie writes Young Adult fiction and recently signed with an agent, so I expect we'll soon see her new book Trees and Other Teachers in print. You can learn more about her work at her website, Julie Zigoris, where she blogs and offers a free newsletter with writing tips, book recommendations, and behind-the-scenes insights on her path to publishing.
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