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Julia Armfield

Biography

Julia Armfield

Julia Armfield is the author of the novels PRIVATE RITES and OUR WIVES UNDER THE SEA, which was a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award and the 2022 Goodreads Choice Award for Best Horror and Best Debut Novel, and the story collection SALT SLOW. Her work has been published in Granta, Lighthouse, Analog Magazine, Neon and Best British Short Stories 2019 and 2021. She is the winner of the White Review Short Story Prize and a Pushcart Prize, and she was shortlisted for the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Awards in 2019. She lives and works in London.

Julia Armfield

Books by Julia Armfield

by Julia Armfield - Fiction

From the award-winning author of OUR WIVES UNDER THE SEA comes a speculative reimagining of King Lear, centering on three sisters navigating queer love and loss in a drowning world.