Juliana Lamy is a Haitian fiction writer from South Florida. She received her Bachelor’s degree in History & Literature from Harvard University. While there, she was also the recipient of the university’s Le Baron Russell Brigg’s Prize for Undergraduate Fiction, as well as the Gordon Parks Essay Prize for Nonfiction. She is the author of You Were Watching from the Sand (Red Hen Press, 2023). She is currently a fiction candidate at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. She really is 6”2, she swears.
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“Every sentence Juliana Lamy writes is like a match being struck. Not many authors debut with her clarity of vision, inventiveness, and verbal agility, and I would wager almost anything that You Were Watching from the Sand will mark only the first chapter in an important body of work.” — Kevin Brockmeier
“These thrilling stories are triumphs of voice and style, of landscape, of finding unanticipated bursts of beauty in the most ferocious of times. Juliana Lamy writes with stunning insight about the groundswells of rupture and healing, of community and isolation, that shape her characters’ lives. You Were Watching from the Sand is a brilliant and unforgettable debut.” — Laura van den Berg