Julie Orringer is the author of the novel “The Invisible Bridge” and the story collection “How To Breathe Underwater.”

Of “The Invisible Bridge,” which will be published in May, Michael Chabon said that: “To bring an entire lost world to vivid life between the covers of a novel is an accomplishment; to invest that world, and everyone who inhabits it, with a soul, as Julie Orringer does in ‘The Invisible Bridge,’ takes something more like genius.”

“How To Breathe Underwater” was a New York Times Notable Book and the winner of the Northern California Book Award.

The New York Times pronounced it the work of “a major new talent,” and the Boston Globe said that “she writes with penetrating intelligence and remarkable self-possession.”

Her stories have appeared in The Paris Review, McSweeney’s, Ploughshares, Zoetrope: All-Story, The Pushcart Prize Anthology, The Best New American Voices, and The Best American Non-Required Reading.

Orringer is a graduate of Cornell University and the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, and she was a Truman Capote Fellow in the Stegner Program at Stanford. She has taught creative writing at the University of Michigan, where she was the Helen Herzog Zell visiting professor.

She lives in Brooklyn with her husband, the writer Ryan Harty.