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Julia Tagliere is a writer and editor and the recipient of a 2022 Maryland State Arts Council Independent Artist Award. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming 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 Writer’s Center Undiscovered Voices Fellowship, and the 2021 Nancy Zafris Short Story Fellowship, Julia completed her M.A. in Writing at Johns Hopkins University. In 2019, she founded the community literary reading series MoCo Underground, to showcase the work of local writers; she also serves as an editor with The Baltimore Review. Her collection, Reliance: Stories & Essays, won the 2023 Electric Book Award and is forthcoming from Alternating Current Press. Contact her at julia@justscribbling.com; follow her at mocounderground@bsky.social; or subscribe to her feed at ghostscribbling.ghost.io.