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Julia Tagliere’s work has appeared in The Writer, Potomac Review, Gargoyle Magazine, Washington Independent Review of Books, and elsewhere. Winner of the 2015 William Faulkner Literary Competition for Best Short Story, the 2017 Writers Center Undiscovered Voices Fellowship, the 2021 Nancy Zafris Short Story Fellowship, and the 2023 Alternating Current Press Electric Book Award for her forthcoming collection, Reliance: Stories and Essays, Julia completed her M.A. in Writing at  Johns Hopkins University in Maryland. In 2019, she founded the Montgomery County Underground Writers Showcase to promote the work of local writers. She is the recipient of a 2022 Independent Artist Award from the Maryland State Arts Council and a 2025 fellowship at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, as well as an alumna of the 2025 Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference.  Since 2017, Julia has served as a fiction and CNF editor with The Baltimore Review. Find her on Bluesky at @juliatagliere.bsky.social or on her website at justscribbling.com.