Julia Fierro's debut novel, Cutting Teeth, was hailed as one of the "Most Anticipated Books of 2014" by HuffPost Books, The Millions, Flavorwire, Brooklyn Magazine, and Marie Claire. The New Yorker called Cutting Teeth "a comically energetic debut." Her second novel, The Gypsy Moth Summer, will be published in 2017 by St. Martin's Press.Julia's work has been published in Poets & Writers, Glamour, Flavorwire, and other publications, and she has been profiled in the L Magazine, The Observer, and The Economist. In 2002, she founded the Sackett Street Writers' Workshop, and what started as eight writers meeting in her Brooklyn kitchen has grown into a creative home for over 2,500 writers. A graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop, she lives in Brooklyn with her husband and two children.