Discipline: Literature – nonfiction

Julie Moon

Discipline: Literature – nonfiction
Region: San Diego, CA
MacDowell Fellowships: 2024

Julie Moon is a writer, translator, and teacher. Most recently, she was a lecturer in writing at the University of California, San Diego. Her prose poems, essays, and literary translations have been published in Catapult, Arkansas International, The Evergreen Review, the National Museum of Contemporary and Modern Art of Korea, and more.

While at MacDowell, she worked on her debut book, a memoir in hybrid prose about her upbringing between South Korea and the U.S. and her grandmother, a survivor of the Korean War.

Studios

Mansfield

Julie Moon worked in the Mansfield studio.

The Helen Coolidge Mansfield Studio was donated by graduates of the Mansfield War Service Classes for Reconstruction Aides. Helen Mansfield helped found the New York MacDowell Club. The small, shingled frame structure with stone foundation was originally fronted on the west side by a neat white picket fence and gate, a garden, and a stone pathway…

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