Julia Hou is a fiction writer and software engineer based in Brooklyn. She's worked as an editorial intern for Cleaver Magazine and a reader for The Oakland Review. She is the creator of a digital artist book, Asterisk, and has had her creative nonfiction published in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Her fiction has been long-listed for the Disquiet Literary Prize and made a finalist for the A Public Space Fellowship, and has also received support from Bread Loaf, Tin House, and the Kenyon Review.
She has previously interned at Meta, Square, and NASA, and currently works at Jane Street as a software engineer.
In her free time, she enjoys long runs and walks, climbing, reading absurd fiction, drinking tea, petting cats, forgetting to water her plants, and muttering to herself on the subway about her stories.