Julia Pierpont is the author of the debut novel AMONG THE TEN THOUSAND THINGS. She is a graduate of Barnard College and the M.F.A. program at N.Y.U., where she was a Rona Jaffe Graduate Fellow and a Stein Fellow. Her writing has appeared in such places as The New York Times Book Review, Guernica and Blunderbuss, and her work appears in the essay collection CRUSH: Writers Reflect on Love, Longing and the Power of Their First Celebrity Crush. Julia works at The New Yorker and teaches creative writing at Catapult and Electric Literature.

Books by Julia Pierpont

Among the Ten Thousand Things

by Julia Pierpont - Fiction

Jack Shanley is a well-known New York artist who doesn’t mean to plunge his family into crisis. His wife, Deb, gladly left behind a difficult career as a dancer to raise the two children she adores. In the ensuing years, she has mostly avoided coming face-to-face with the weaknesses of the man she married. But then an anonymously sent package arrives in the mail: a cardboard box containing sheaves of printed emails chronicling Jack’s secret life. The package is addressed to Deb, but it’s delivered into the wrong hands: her children’s.