Julia Franks is the author of Over the Plain Houses, an NPR Best Book of 2016 that was also awarded five prestigious literary prizes and included in many “best of” lists. She has also published essays in the New York Times and The Bitter Southerner, among other places. Her family has roots in the Southeast, though she was raised as an army “brat”, then spent years as a school teacher in the US and abroad, and now lives in Atlanta.
The Say So is published with Hub City Press.