Julia Hou

Selected Works

Fiction

Rooting,

Ploughshares (forthcoming)

West Branch

The Journal

Fourteen Hills

The Cincinnati Review

Still Life,

New Letters

nominated for Pushcart Prize and PEN/Dau Short Story Prize

Creative Nonfiction

In Chinese I Am Six Years Old,

Brevity

nominated for Pushcart Prize

To the boy who gropes me in seventh grade,

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Misc

Book Review of The Liberators by E.J. Koh,

Cleaver Magazine

Asterisk,

artist book

Awards

Ploughshares Emerging Writers' Contest (2026)

Semifinalist,

American Short(er) Fiction Prize (2026)

Fresh Voices Fellowship,

Epiphany (2026)

Vermont Studio Center (2026)

Conferences and Workshops

Tin House Summer Workshop (2024)

Kenyon Review Writers Workshop (2024)

Bread Loaf Writers' Conference (2023)