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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
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Journalist Julia Cooke’s writing has appeared in Condé Nast’s Traveller, The Atlantic, Guernica, LA Weekly, The Wall Street Journal, The Virginia Quarterly Review, Gawker, The Village Voice, The Christian Science Monitor, and many other publications. She has been a Nonfiction Fellow at the Norman Mailer Writers Colony and a Hertog Fellow at Columbia University, where she earned her MFA. She lives in New York City and teaches at the New School. The Other Side of Paradise is her first book.
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