Jen Julian is a writer from Eastern North Carolina. She holds a PhD in English from the University of Missouri, Columbia, and an MFA in Fiction from UNC Greensboro.

Her short story collection, Earthly Delights and Other Apocalypses, was the winner of the Press 53 Fiction Prize and was published in 2018, and her debut novel, Red Rabbit Ghost, is upcoming through Orbit/Redhook, 2025. Recent work has appeared in Gulf Coast Magazine, The Harvard Advocate, swamp pink, hex, Bourbon Penn, Third Coast Magazine, Wigleaf, and SmokeLong Quarterly, among other places. She has won numerous awards, been nominated for the Pushcart Prize, Best Small Fictions, and Best of the Net, and had her work recognized as notable in The Best American Short Stories 2023.

Jen is a 2016 Clarion alumna, fond of fairy tales and spec-fic, ambient music, all the different varieties of moss, and listening to you tell your ghost stories. She and her fluffy ginger cat currently live in the mountains of North Georgia, where she teaches creative writing at Young Harris College and acts as fiction editor for storySouth. She is currently working on her third book, a fantasy novel set in Appalachia.

Updates and excerpts of her work can be found on her Substack.