JULIE ORRINGER s-a nascut in 1973 la Miami, in Florida. A studiat la Cornell University si detine un masterat in fictiune de la Iowa Writers’ Workshop. In prezent, preda literatura la Brooklyn College si Stanford University, iar in trecut a tinut cursuri la Columbia University, Princeton University, NYU, University of Michigan si California College of the Arts.
A debutat in 2003 cu volumul de povestiri How to Breathe Underwater, care a devenit New York Times Notable Book, San Francisco Chronicle Best Book of the Year si a castigat Northern California Book Award. Povestirile ei au aparut in publicatiile Paris Review, McSweeney’s, Ploughshares, Zoetrope: All-Story etc. si in multe antologii: The Best New American Voices, The Pushcart Prize Anthology, Granta Book of the American Short Story, The Scribner Anthology of American Short Fiction.
Pentru ele a primit numeroase premii, printre care Paris Review’s Plimpton Prize, doua Pushcart Prizes, de doua ori Yale Review Editor’s Prize. In 2010 publica primul roman, The Invisible Bridge, devenit bestseller New York Times si nominalizat la Orange Prize in 2011. Al doilea roman, Portofoliul fugii (The Flight Portfolio, Humanitas Fiction, 2021), ii apare in 2019 si e inclus de publicatiile The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, Entertainment Weekly si Observer printre cele mai bune carti ale anului.
A beneficiat de burse de creatie din partea Guggenheim Foundation, National Endowment for the Arts, Cullman Center de la New York Public Library, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study de la Harvard, MacDowell Colony si Yaddo. Cartile ei au fost traduse in douazeci de limbi.
