The Whipping
From the Summer 2006 Issue
Julia Elliott is the author of the novel The New and Improved Romie Futch (Tin House, 2015) and the story collection The Wilds (Tin House, 2014), a New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice. She has won a Rona Jaffe Writer’s Award, and her stories have been anthologized in Best American Short Stories and Pushcart Prize: Best of the Small Presses. Her new collection, Hellions, is forthcoming from Tin House Books in 2025.