Julie Wan is a writer and editor based in Washington, DC. Her essays, features, and food and travel pieces have appeared in the Washington Post Magazine, Time Out Beijing, Meatpaper, Arts and Letters, and Kartika Review, among others. She is the recipient of the Arts & Letters Creative Nonfiction Prize and the William Allen Creative Nonfiction Award. She also freelances as an editor for various academic publications and nonprofit organizations.
Julie earned her MFA in nonfiction writing from the University of Pittsburgh, where she taught creative writing and composition and received a Nationality Rooms travel research grant to China in 2004. She has also taught writing at the University of Maryland and the Catholic University of America.
Julie was born in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, to Chinese parents and spent most of her childhood in Canada — a journey that often informs her work. She now lives on Capitol Hill with her husband and son, and is a member of St. Brendan’s church. She blogs at Meat Loves Salt, an archive of recipes, stories, and traditions from her Chinese Vietnamese family.
