Julija Šukys

Julija Šukys is a writer and Associate Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Missouri, where she has taught since 2013. Her nonfiction explores family history and archival research, especially the life of Lithuanian librarian Ona Šimaitė. She has published essays in the Tusculum Review and other literary and scholarly journals. Her books include Epistolophilia, which won the 2013 Canadian Jewish Book Award for Holocaust Literature, and Siberian Exile (2017), which traces her grandparents' separation during the Soviet period.