Julia Shiota is a writer and editor born in Osaka, Japan and living in Minnesota. Her fiction and nonfiction writing has appeared in National Geographic, Outside Magazine, Poets & Writers, Real Simple, Electric Literature, and elsewhere. She was a regular contributor for the Ploughshares Blog for three years, where she covered books-in-translation (focusing on contemporary women writers in Japan), academic work written for a general audience, and essay collections.
She is an alum of the Tin House 2022 Short Fiction Winter workshop, the Kenyon Review’s Speculative Fiction Workshop, and was an Honorable Mention for the Loft Literary Center’s Mentor Series Fellowship.
She is currently working on a historical speculative fiction novel.
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