Julie Orringer
Julie Orringer (born June 12, 1973), is an American writer and lecturer born in Miami, Florida. Her first book, How to Breathe Underwater, was published in September 2003 by Knopf Publishing Group. She is married to fellow writer Ryan Harty.
Orringer is a graduate of Cornell University and the Iowa Writers' Workshop and was a Stegner Fellow at Stanford University.
Her stories have appeared in The Paris Review, McSweeney's, Ploughshares, Zoetrope: All-Story, The Pushcart Prize Anthology, The Best New American Voices, and The Best American Non-Required Reading.
She received the Paris Review's Discovery Prize, two Pushcart Prizes,The Yale Review Editors' Prize, Ploughshares' Cohen Award, the Northern California Book Award, and the Anne and Robert Cowan Award from the Jewish Community Endowment Fund. She was the recipient of a 2004–5 NEA grant for her current project, a novel set in Budapest and Paris before and during the Second World War. This novel, entitled The Invisible Bridge, was published by Knopf in May 2010. The novel is based on the experiences of her family in the Holocaust and World War 2, including her grand-uncle Alfred Tibor, who later became a well-known sculptor.
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