Julia Conrad is a nonfiction writer and translator, originally from Brooklyn. Her work engages with feminism, classical music, sexuality, Italian literature, archives, and humor as an entry-point to social criticism.
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. She is an Assistant Professor of Instruction at University of Iowa.
Her first book, a hidden history of women in classical music, will be published by Scribner.