Julie Buntin grew up in northern Michigan. Her debut novel, Marlena, was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle’s John Leonard Prize, translated into ten languages, and named a best book of the year by over a dozen outlets, including the Washington Post, NPR, and Kirkus Reviews. Along with Rebecca Dinerstein Knight, she’s the editor of Notes to New Mothers, a collection of dispatches from postpartum life that’s forthcoming from Norton. Her second novel won the Ellen Levine Fund for Writers Award and is forthcoming from Random House.

Her writing has appeared in the Atlantic, Vogue, the New York Times Book Review, Harper’s, and elsewhere. She has received fellowships from Bread Loaf and the MacDowell Colony. She teaches creative writing at the University of Michigan.