Where the heart is

Los Angeles born-and-raised
Boston-educated
A few fledgling NYC years
Sojourn to the North Sea (Scotland)

page turners

The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories by Ken Liu

On loop

Hozier’s Unreal Unearth

Julia Chen is a Chinese American writer, editor, and strategic storyteller. She has an MLitt in Creative Writing from the University of St. Andrews (graduating November 2023) and holds a BA in English Literature from Boston University. Her professional experience to date has been in Off-Broadway theater (with a focus on marketing and development) and municipal government. In her off-hours, she’s still aspiring to the Miyazaki heroine she knows she can be, which might explain why her first ever published piece was about (literal) toast.

Julia has received support for her work from Kundiman and Winter Tangerine. Her writing can be found in No Tender Fences: An Anthology of Immigrant & First-Generation American Poetry and Honey Literary. She is also an Assistant Fiction Editor at The Offing.