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Alex Dawson talks with JULIA LIZ ELLIOT. From the acclaimed author of The Wilds, a New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice,  and The New and Improved Romie Futch, comes an electric story collection that blends folklore, fairy tales, Southern Gothic, and horror, reveling in the collision of the familiar with the wildly surreal.  A TiIME Best Book of April, HELLIONS has been called "Intoxicating" (Publishers Weekly), "Captivating." (Chicago Review of Books), "Bewitching" (Booklist), "Dazzling" (LitHub), and "Unsettling. Feral fairytales with a gothic twist." (TIME). Her work has appeared in The Georgia Review, Tin House, Conjunctions, and the New York Times, and her stories have been anthologized in Best American Short Stories and Pushcart Prize: Best of the Small Presses. "I am obsessed."?Carmen Maria Machado, Her Body and Other Parties. “Beautiful, visceral, surprising stories, both wild and dangerous, with a Southern twang but universal appeal. Elliott is an Angela Carter for our times.”?Jeff VanderMeer, Absolution