Julie Wan is a nonfiction writer and editor based in Washington, DC. Her work has appeared in Arts and Letters, The Journal, Kartika Review, and the Washington Post, among others. She earned 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.
Julie was born in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, to Chinese parents but spent most of her childhood in Canada. Excerpts from her memoir in progress have received the Arts and Letters Creative Nonfiction Prize and the William Allen Creative Nonfiction Award. She has taught writing at the University of Pittsburgh, the University of Maryland, and the Catholic University of America. Currently she freelances as writer and copy editor for various publications and nonprofits. She also reviews books for BookBrowse and is a member of the National Book Critics Circle.
Julie lives on Capitol Hill with her husband and is a member of St. Brendan’s church. She recently started Meat Loves Salt, a food blog where she and her sister archive family recipes and share stories of making and eating food in their Chinese Vietnamese family.