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.

She is the author of two novels—Red Rabbit Ghost (Orbit/Run for It 2025) The Winter Folk, (upcoming Orbit/Run for it July 2026)—and one short story collection—Earthly Delights and Other Apocalypses (Press 53 2018). Her 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 horror, 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 fourth book, an apocalyptic sequel to The Winter Folk.

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