Julija Šukys is an Assistant Professor of English at the University of Missouri, Columbia, where she teaches the writing of creative nonfiction. She is the author of Silence is Death: The Life and Work of Tahar Djaout (Nebraska, 2007) and Epistolophilia: Writing the Life of Ona Šimait? (Nebraska, 2012), winner of the 2013 Canadian Jewish Book Award for Holocaust Literature. Šukys is the co-founder of the Missouri Audio Project.