Virginia Pye has published work in literary journals, including The North American Review, failbetter.com and Streetlight and has been a finalist in three Glimmer Train fiction contests. She has stories forthcoming in The Baltimore Review and The Potomac Review. She holds an MFA from Sarah Lawrence College where she studied with Allan Gurganus and Joan Silber. At Wesleyan University, Annie Dillard was her first mentor. For many years, Virginia taught writing at New York University and the University of Pennsylvania and has received fellowships from the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts and the Acadia Summer Arts Program on Mt. Desert Island, Maine.

In Richmond, Virginia, she is Chair of James River Writers, a literary non-profit with approximately 400 members. JRW supports and encourages professional and aspiring writers through many programs and events, including a highly-successful annual writer’s conference which brings best-selling authors, agents and editors to the region.

Her new novel, Sleepwalking to China, tells the story of three generations of an American family and their ties to China and Vietnam. She lives in Richmond with her husband, art museum curator John Ravenal, and their two children.