Uncovering a Story: An Interview with Kim Triedman
by Julia Fierro
“Even when I walked away from the novel for years at a time, I knew I had something, and I knew I’d want to return to it. I needed it to be right, and I needed closure.”
Julia Fierro is the author of Cutting Teeth, a novel, to be released by St. Martin’s Press on May 13, 2014. Julia’s work has been published, or is forthcoming, in Guernica Magazine, The Millions, Poets & Writers, Flavorwire, Ploughshares and other publications, and she has been profiled in the L Magazine, Brooklyn Magazine, The Observer and The Economist. In 2002, Julia 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 2000 writers. A graduate of The Iowa Writers’ Workshop, where she was a Teaching-Writing Fellow, Julia currently teaches the post-MFA workshops at Sackett Street.
“Even when I walked away from the novel for years at a time, I knew I had something, and I knew I’d want to return to it. I needed it to be right, and I needed closure.”