Julie Orringer is an American novelist, short story writer, and professor. She was born in Miami, Florida in 1973 and now lives in Brooklyn with her husband, fellow writer Ryan Harty. Orringer attended Cornell University and the Iowa Writer's Workshop, and was a Stegner Fellow at Stanford University. She is the author of The Invisible Bridge, which became a New York Times bestseller, and How to Breathe Underwater, a collection of short stories. Her novel The Flight Portfolio tells the story of Varian Fry, a New York journalist who traveled to Marseille in 1940 to help save writers and artists who had been blacklisted by the Gestapo. The novel inspired the Netflix series Transatlantic.