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
CUNY Graduate Center, Writers’ Institute, Fellow, 2023-24
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
Ateliers de la NRF, Éditions Gallimard, Rythme et Récit, Paris, January-February 2025, Sylvain Prudhomme, mentor
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