About Julia Story
Julia Story is the author of Post Moxie and the chapbooks The Trapdoor and Julie the Astonishing. Her work has been awarded a Pushcart Prize and has appeared in many publications including Diode, Ploughshares, The Paris Review, and The New Yorker.
Praise for Spinster for Hire
Cinematic, darkly funny, & seductively sad—watching Julia Story cut these twisty, glinting shapes out of silence is like watching a kirigami artist summon a life-size funnel cloud out of a single sheet of paper. Spinster for Hire is sublime—so full of finely-tuned truth, it practically levitates.
—Karyna McGlynn, author of Hothouse and The Nine-Day Queen Gets Lost on Her Way to the Execution
Spinster for Hire is an antidote to modern noise—a long, late-night walk that leaves us wondering how we got here. Against a backdrop of existential isolation, Story points out constellations. Maybe they mean something, and if not, these poems shepherd us through the mystery.
— Rob McDonald, editor of Sixth Finch
I want poetry to shine its bright light on my loneliness and show me the play I’m in. I want poetry to put its hand through the infinite dimensions in which I exist. I want poetry that offers everything then takes most of it back. This is the poetry of Julia Story. The voice here is friends with its sadness and yet we are yanked, with fierce exultance, up and through joy, too. Mashed and battered, held and protected, these words are life, and a life that asks, “What harms us more than our hope?”
—Emily Kendal Frey, author of The Grief Performance and Sorrow Arrow
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