Julia Ridley Smith

Julia Ridley Smith is the author of Sex Romp Gone Wrong (Blair), a short story collection, and The Sum of Trifles (University of Georgia Press), a memoir about cleaning out her antique-dealer parents’ house, grief, and what the objects we live with mean to us. Her work has appeared in The Cincinnati Review, Ecotone, Electric Literature, the Missouri Review, New England Review, The Southern Review, and elsewhere. Smith teaches creative writing at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.