In "The Isabel Fish," the sole survivor of a drowning accident takes up scuba diving. In "Pilgrims," a band of motherless children torment each other on Thanksgiving day. How to Breathe Underwater contains nine short stories, many of them about characters submerged by loss, whether of parents or lovers or a viable relationship to the world in general. The novel is based on the experiences of her family in the Holocaust and World War 2, including her grand-uncle Alfred Tibor, who later became a well-known sculptor. She was the recipient of a 2004–5 NEA grant for The Invisible Bridge. She received the Paris Review's Discovery Prize, two Pushcart Prizes, The Yale Review Editors' Prize, Ploughshares' Cohen Award, the Northern California Book Award, and the Anne and Robert Cowan Award from the Jewish Community Endowment Fund. Her stories have appeared in numerous anthologies, including The Granta Book of the American Short Story and The Scribner Anthology of American Short Fiction, as well as The Paris Review, McSweeney's, Ploughshares, Zoetrope: All-Story, The Pushcart Prize Anthology, The Best New American Voices, and The Best American Non-Required Reading.
Mary's College, California College of the Arts, and Stanford University. In the past she has also taught at Brooklyn College, Columbia University, Princeton University, NYU, University of Michigan, St. She teaches Fiction at New York University and the Stanford University Stanford in New York Program. She is the winner of the Paris Review’s Plimpton Prize and has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Cullman Center at the New York Public Library, the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard, the MacDowell Colony, and Yaddo. Julie Orringer received her BA in English from Cornell University and her MFA in Fiction from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. The novel inspired the Netflix series Transatlantic. She is the author of The Invisible Bridge, a New York Times bestseller, and How to Breathe Underwater, a collection of stories her novel, The Flight Portfolio, tells the story of Varian Fry, the New York journalist who went to Marseille in 1940 to save writers and artists blacklisted by the Gestapo. She was born in Miami, Florida and now lives in Brooklyn with her husband, fellow writer Ryan Harty. She attended Cornell University and the Iowa Writer's Workshop, and was a Stegner Fellow at Stanford University.
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