About the Author

Jen Julian is a 2016 Clarion alumna with a PhD in English from the University of Missouri, Columbia, and an MFA in Fiction from UNC Greensboro. Her short stories and essays have appeared or are upcoming in TriQuarterly, Beecher’s Magazine, Greensboro Review, The Chattahoochee Review, and North Carolina Literary Review, among other places. Currently, she is the Visiting Fiction Writer-in-Residence at Allegheny College in Pennsylvania, where she teaches writing and literature and is working on a dystopian novel. She calls coastal North Carolina her home.

Praise for Earthly Delights and Other Apocalypses

In Earthly Delights and Other Apocalypses, Jen Julian takes your hand and leads you slowly into a world where ghosts lurk in houses full of strange objects, time and space expand and contract at will, and characters grapple with loss, survival, and what it means to be human. These stories, deliciously flavored with science fiction and Southern Gothic, are subtle and fine-wrought, each sentence pulling you forward to a beautiful or breathtaking conclusion. Every story in this collection is a gem.

—Emily Cataneo, author of Speaking to Skull Kings and Other Stories

I love Jen Julian's stories. They're wise, weird, and steeped in an alluring darkness. They're also deeply felt and resonate with true feeling. This is stunning a risk-taking debut and one that I'll be returning to often.

—Bryan Hurt, author of Everyone Want to Be Ambassador to France

This collection will take the top of your head off. Anglerfish. Sex Robots. Sensatones and stereograms. Time travel and Kairotic displacement disorder. Julian’s fiction has it all: the relevance of realism, the imaginative leaps of fabulism, the philosophical depth of S/F. These stories did more than entertain me—they actually changed my mind.

—Trudy Lewis, author of The Empire Rolls: A Novel