Writer. Animal Lover. Not Afraid of Math.
Julia Strayer writes haunting stories of longing and loss where nothing is quite as it seems.
Her writing appears at Glimmer Train, Kenyon Review Online, Indiana Review, Post Road, SmokeLong Quarterly, Mid-American Review and others.
She won the Glimmer Train Short Story Award for New Writers, the New Ohio Review Fiction Contest, the CRAFT Flash Prose Prize and was a finalist in the CRAFT Literary First Chapters Contest for a novel in progress. Her work was selected for the Wigleaf Top 50 and The Best Small Fictions, shortlisted for Craft Literary Dialogue contest, and finalist for Iowa Review Awards Short Fiction contest, and others.
She earned a BA in Journalism from The Ohio State University, MBA from New York University’s Stern School of Business, and MFA from Sarah Lawrence College. She works in the financial industry as a Wealth Management Advisor, is a Submissions Editor at SmokeLong Quarterly, and teaches literature and creative writing at New York University.
Born and raised in Ohio, she speaks fluent Midwest. She’s lived on the east coast for enough years that she’s capable of waiting “in line” and “on line” to order a pop or a soda.
She’s good with directions, doesn’t like avocados, talks to animals. Sometimes they talk back. She likes cute shoes but hates to shop. Likes the idea of different ice cream flavors, but almost always chooses chocolate. Her cats expect more from her. Her husband does not.
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Photo credit: Laurie Klein