| Juliet Escoria | |
| Occupation: | Writer, artist |
| Education: | Brooklyn College (MFA) |
| Genre: | Literary Fiction |
| Nationality: | American |
Juliet Escoria is an American writer. She was born in Australia, raised in San Diego, and lives in West Virginia with her husband, the writer and martial artist Scott McClanahan.[1]
She published a collection of stories with accompanying videos[2] titled Black Cloud (2014). Black Cloud received positive reviews at Flavorwire,[3] Bullet Magazine [4] and Volume 1 Brooklyn [5] It was mentioned in the lists of best books of 2014 at The Fader,[6] Salon,[7] and Flavorwire.
Escoria’s work has appeared in publications such as Electric Literature, Hobart,[8] VICE The Believer,[9] and Guernica. Escoria holds an MFA in Fiction Writing from Brooklyn College.
Escoria also created companion videos to accompany the stories in Black Cloud.[10]
In his positive review of Juliet the Maniac for NPR, Gabino Iglesias said, "Juliet The Maniac is a heartfelt, raw, powerfully told story about surviving mental illness and learning to cope with inner demons. Escoria is a talented writer who's not afraid to write her truth, even when it will scrape viciously at the souls of readers."[11] In her review for The New York Times, Elizabeth Nicholas compared the novel to Sylvia Plath, Joan Didion, and Ottessa Moshfegh, adding, "Juliet Escoria’s autofictive debut novel, Juliet the Maniac, is a worthy new entry in that pantheon of deconstruction. Told in a series of fragments spanning the teenage years in which bipolar Juliet’s life unravels, it is a narrative that insists on its own severity."[12]