Julia Conrad is a nonfiction writer and translator, originally from Brooklyn. Her work often engages with feminism, classical music, sexuality, Italian literature, archives, and humor as an entry-point to social critique.
Her writing and translations have been published in The Massachusetts Review, The Offing, Asymptote, the anthology Choice Words: Writers on Abortion, among others. She is a contributor to VAN Magazine and The Millions, and her essays have been translated into Spanish, Italian, and German.
She received two MFAs from the University of Iowa, where she was an Iowa Arts Fellow. Her work has been supported by the Fulbright Program, Vermont Studio Center and Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts.
She is at work on her first book, a hidden history of women in classical music, to be published by Scribner.