Julie Moon


Disciplines: Literature – nonfiction
Disciplines: Literature – nonfiction
Based in San Diego, CA
Residencies: 2024
Portrait by: Joanna Eldredge Morrissey

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. Mrs. Mansfield helped found the New York MacDowell Club, which was among the biggest clubs by the same name around the country honoring the legacy of Edward MacDowell and supporting MacDowell. The small…

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