Author
Julie Koh
Julie Koh was born in Sydney to Chinese-Malaysian parents. She studied politics and law at the University of Sydney, then quit a career in corporate law to pursue writing. Julie is the author of two short-story collections. Her capsule collection, Capital Misfits, was published by Spineless Wonders in 2015 and Math Paper Press in 2016. The Math Paper Press edition was illustrated by Matt Huynh.
Julie’s full-length collection, Portable Curiosities, was published by UQP in 2016. It was shortlisted for the Readings Prize for New Australian Fiction 2016, the Queensland Literary Awards – Australian Short Story Collection – Steele Rudd Award 2016, the UTS Glenda Adams Award in the 2017 NSW Premier’s Literary Awards, and the Australian Science Fiction Foundation’s 2018 Norma K Hemming Award (Long Work). Portable Curiosities was one of The Guardian’s Best Australian Books of 2016, an Australian Book Review 2016 and 2017 Book of the Year, a Sydney Morning Herald Daily Life feminist reading pick of 2016, a Feminist Writers Festival Best Feminist Book of 2016 and an ABC Radio National 2017 Best Summer Read. Julie was named a 2017 Sydney Morning Herald Best Young Australian Novelist for Portable Curiosities.
Julie’s short stories have appeared in The Best Australian Stories in 2014 to 2017, Best Australian Comedy Writing, The Sleepers Almanac 7 to X, The Canary Press, Liminal, The Australian, Reading the Landscape, Sydney Noir, Dear Santa, Dear Dad, New Australian Fiction, Everything Changes, Seizure, Meanjin, Vault, fine print, Kyoto Journal, The Fish Anthology, Silent Dialogue, Fixi Novo’s HEAT, the Sydney Review of Books and The Lifted Brow. Short films based on her stories have screened at the St Kilda Film Festival, the Good Dog! International Film Festival and the Palm Springs International ShortFest.
Julie edited BooksActually’s Gold Standard 2016 (Math Paper Press), an anthology of the best short fiction from cult writers of East Asia, Southeast Asia and the d