Julie Irigaray (she/her) is an English literature PhD student at the University of Huddersfield, UK. She was educated at Université Paris Cité, King’s College London, and Trinity College Dublin. Her academic publications include an article on Sylvia Plath and France and a book chapter on the contemporary British writer Max Porter. She works as a creative writing tutor for City Lit and is the author of Whalers, Witches and Gauchos (Nine Pens, 2021).