VP Profile #8: Julia Rios

Everyone welcome Julia Rios, fellow Fighting XIII'er and fashionista.

Tamago: When did you discover you wanted to be a writer? How long have you been writing?

Julia; I've always loved making up stories and hearing stories. My brother started learning to read when I was about 2, and I remember watching him and working out that words on the page meant something. I knew right away that I needed to understand how that worked, but it was a few years before I was really reading and writing on my own (I wasn't an amazing child prodigy like some others I know--none of this "I was reading the Wall Street Journal at age 3" stuff for me). As soon as I learned, I started writing stories, though, and even my earliest efforts were clearly speculative. I have some stories I wrote when I was 9, and they're all about ghosts and magic and things like that.

Tamago: How would you characterize the kinds of stories you write?

Julia: Other writers, editors, friends, and family members love to ask this question, and I inevitably respond by gaping and flailing like a fish out of water. I don't really know. I guess I tend toward weird additions to contemporary realism? That sounds mighty pretentious, doesn't it?

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