Julia Ridley Smith

Julia Ridley Smith is the author of a short story collection, Sex Romp Gone Wrong (Blair, 2024). Her first book, The Sum of Trifles (University of Georgia Press, 2021), is a memoir about cleaning out her antique-dealer parents’ house, grief, and what the objects we live with mean to us. Smith’s short stories and essays have appeared in Alaska Quarterly Review, The Cincinnati Review, Ecotone, Electric Literature, the New England Review, and The Southern Review, among other places, and her work has been recognized as notable in Best American Essays. She teaches creative writing at UNC Chapel Hill.