Julia Malye is the author of three novels published in France; she works as a creative writing instructor at Sciences Po Paris and as a translator for Les Belles Lettres publishing house. In 2015, she moved to the United States to study the craft of fiction and graduated from Oregon State University's MFA program in 2017. Since 2015, she's taught writing to hundreds of students, both in the United States at Oregon State University, and in France at La Sorbonne Nouvelle, and Sciences Po Paris. Pelican Girls is her English-language debut, which she wrote concurrently in both French and English, and is being translated in twenty-five languages.

A tale of female friendship unlike any I've come across before, Julia Malye's inspired-by-a-true-story Pelican Girls is as incredible a feat of research as it is a daring work of fiction. In the mid-18th century, a group of women "of childbearing age" are sent from La Salpêtrière asylum in Paris to wed settlers in New Orleans, where three unlikely friends must band together to survive abuses of both the body and the heart

Julia Malye is the author of three novels published in France; she works as a creative writing instructor at Sciences Po Paris and as a translator for Les Belles Lettres publishing house. In 2015, she moved to the United States to study the craft of fiction and graduated from Oregon State University's MFA program in 2017. Since 2015, she's taught writing to hundreds of students, both in the United States at Oregon State University, and in France at La Sorbonne Nouvelle, and Sciences Po Paris. Pelican Girls is her English-language debut, which she wrote concurrently in both French and English, and is being translated in twenty-five languages.

A tale of female friendship unlike any I've come across before, Julia Malye's inspired-by-a-true-story Pelican Girls is as incredible a feat of research as it is a daring work of fiction. In the mid-18th century, a group of women "of childbearing age" are sent from La Salpêtrière asylum in Paris to wed settlers in New Orleans, where three unlikely friends must band together to survive abuses of both the body and the heart