Julia Conrad is a writer, literary translator, and violin player. Her work engages with feminism, classical music, Italian literature, sex, meat, archives, and humor as an entry-point to social criticism.
Her work is in The Massachusetts Review, The Offing, The Millions, the anthology Choice Words: Writers on Abortion, and many others. She is a contributor to VAN Magazine, and her writing has been translated into Spanish, Italian, and German.
A recent Fulbright fellow, she earned two MFAs from the University of Iowa, where she received an Iowa Arts Fellowship. She has been a resident at Vermont Studio Center and Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts.
She is currently working on Sex and the Symphony, a book about women in classical music, to be published by Simon & Schuster. Her writing is represented by Allison Devereux at Trellis Literary Agency.