Juliet Escoria is the author of the story collection You Are the Snake (forthcoming from Soft Skull in 2024) and the novel Juliet the Maniac (Melville House, 2019). Her first two books, Black Cloud and Witch Hunt, will be issued in a new volume by CLASH Books in the fall of 2023. She was born in Australia, raised in San Diego, and currently lives in West Virginia.