Julia M Strayer

Julia Strayer writes haunting stories of longing and loss where nothing is quite as it seems. Her writing appears at Glimmer Train, Kenyon Review Online, Indiana Review, Post Road, SmokeLong Quarterly, Mid-American Review and others.

She won the Glimmer Train Short Story Award for New Writers, the 2022 New Ohio Review Fiction Contest, and was a finalist in the CRAFT Literary 2022 First Chapters Contest for a novel in progress. Her work was selected for the Wigleaf Top 50 and The Best Small Fictions, shortlisted for Craft Literary Dialogue contest, and finalist for Iowa Review Awards Short Fiction contest. 

She earned a BA in Journalism from The Ohio State University, MBA from New York University’s Stern School of Business, and MFA from Sarah Lawrence College. She works in the financial industry, teaches creative writing at New York University, and is a Submissions Editor for SmokeLong Quarterly.

Publications

• https://juliastrayer.com/ By Complete Publication List at website (Jan 01 2024)
• "Wolf" 2022 Fiction Contest Winner By New Ohio Review (Mar 01 2023)
• "Hello?" By Jellyfish Review (Nov 04 2022)
• "In the Shape of a Small Bird" Named to Wigleaf Top 50 By The Miramichi Review (Aug 26 2022)
• "The Dar-Ron Motel" By Okay Donkey (Aug 19 2022)
• "Nougatine" By The Cincinnati Review (Jul 01 2022)