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Julie Koh

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About

Julie Koh was born in Sydney to Chinese-Malaysian parents, and left a career in corporate law to pursue writing. She is the author of two short-story collections: Capital Misfits (Spineless Wonders; Math Paper Press) and Portable Curiosities (UQP), which was shortlisted for the Readings Prize for New Australian Fiction, the Steele Rudd Award in the Queensland Literary Awards, and a NSW Premier’s Literary Award.

Julie’s stories have appeared in Best Australian Stories in 2014, 2015 and 2016, and Best Australian Comedy Writing in 2016. Julie is the editor of BooksActually’s Gold Standard, a 2018 Stella Prize judge and a founding member of Kanganoulipo. 

Past Events

Emerging Writers’ Festival Programme Launch: Everything’s … Fine

Sukhjit Kaur Khalsa, Julie Koh, Khalid Warsame, Izzy Roberts-Orr, Maurial Spearim

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