About
Julie Wan is a nonfiction writer and editor with a love of essays, memoirs, and feature stories. Her work has appeared in Arts and Letters, The Journal, and The Washington Post, among others.
Julie was born in Ho Chi Minh City to Chinese parents but spent most of her childhood in Canada. She is writing a memoir about her family, excerpts of which have won the Arts and Letters Creative Nonfiction Prize (2007) and the William Allen Creative Nonfiction Award (2006). A chapter is available here.
Julie received her MFA in nonfiction writing from the University of Pittsburgh, where she was the recipient of a teaching fellowship and a Nationality Rooms travel research grant to China. She has taught writing at the University of Pittsburgh, the University of Maryland, and the Catholic University of America.
Julie now lives in DC with her husband, William, a staff writer for The Washington Post. She is currently the assistant editor of Weatherwise magazine.