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About Julia

Julia Mallory is committed to being a good steward of, and vessel for her ancestors' stories. As a storyteller, whose first creative love language is poetry and working with a range of medium from text to textiles, the latest manifestations of Julia's creative work include mixed media collage, sonic collage, and short stories. In 2022, Julia's short story "Lottie" received the CUSP Prize for Fiction. Julia’s written work can be found in Barrelhouse, the Black Speculative Arts Movement’s “Curating the End of the World: RED SPRING IV – Wildseeds & Black Futures”, The Offing, Stellium Literary Magazine, Sugarcane Magazine, Torch Literary Arts, 68 to 05, petrichor, and elsewhere. Most recently, Julia's Deep Spaces series of abstract watercolor collages was featured in the “Art in the Stacks” solo exhibition at the New Cumberland Public Library in collaboration with the New Cumberland Collective and selected works from the My Cape is Hanging Somewhere in a Museum series were included in the "Partage" group exhibition in Philadelphia. Julia is the author of six books, including two children’s books, the founder of the creative container, Black Mermaids and the newly launched Harrisburg Youth Arts Incubator, serves as the Senior Poetry Editor for Raising Mothers, and a Poetry Editor for The Loveliest Review. Julia’s short, experimental film, Grief is the Glitch, debuted in 2022 and has screened at seven film festivals, including the Women of African Descent Film Festival, the DC Black Film Festival, and the Black Experimental Film Festival in Toronto. Julia is also a 2022 Black Art in America Foundation “The Next Big Idea” grantee, a Spring 2022 Reclamation Ventures Impact Grantee (healing practices for grief), and a 2023 Diaspora Solidarities Lab Community Fellow. Julia is the mother of three children and is from the Southside of Harrisburg.