Julia Conrad is a nonfiction writer, translator, and classically-trained violin player. Originally from Brooklyn, she is based in Iowa City, where she is an Assistant Professor of Instruction at University of Iowa.
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 holds 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.
Her first book, a hidden history of women in classical music, will be published by Scribner in 2027.