About

An excerpt of Julia Lichtblau’s novel, The Glass House, was a finalist for Narrative Magazine’s Winter 2024 Contest. The first chapter was longlisted for the 2023 Disquiet Prize. Her essay “I So Wish You Remembered” was published in the Spring 2024 issue of The American Scholar, her third for the magazine. Her fiction, criticism, and essays have also appeared in The Museum of Americana, American Fiction, Blackbird, Narrative, The Florida Review, The Common, and elsewhere. After a journalism career covering international finance at BusinessWeek and Dow Jones Newswires in New York and Paris, she earned an MFA in fiction from Bennington College. She was a member of the CUNY Graduate Center’s Writers’ Institute in 2023-24 and is working on a new novel.

She lives in Brooklyn, N.Y. with her family.



Experience

Book Review Editor, The Common, Amherst College 10/12-1/19

Lecturer, English Department, Drew University, Madison, NJ 8/16-4/19

Visiting Writer, Harbor School, Governor’s Island, New York City-2/14-6/14

Writing Programs

Bennington College Writing Seminars, Post-grad term June-Dec. 2018, Jill McCorkle, mentor

MFA, Creative Writing and Literature (Fiction), Bennington College 6/09-6/11

Creative Writing Certificate, Distinction, Humber College, Toronto 9/08-3/09, Richard Bausch, mentor

Seminars/Workshops

Disquiet International Literary Conference, Lisbon, 2023, Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, workshop leader (partial scholarship)

Online SLS Seminar, 2020, Dawn Raffel

Sewanee Writers’ Conference, 2015-Richard Bausch, mentor

Sanibel Island Writers’ Conference, 2012-Scholarship, 2nd Prize Jeanne Leiby Contest, Florida Review

Disquiet International Literary Conference, Lisbon, 2012, Scholarship (partial)

Humber College Writing Seminar, 2008, Joseph Kertes, mentor

Paris Writer’s Workshop- 2007- Patricia Painton Scholarship, Alice Mattison, mentor

Education

MFA, Creative Writing, Bennington College, 2019-2011

BFA, Dance Honors, York University, Toronto

Linguistics major, University of Pennsylvania