Julie Koh

Authors / Editor

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. Her short stories have appeared in The Best Australian Stories 2014 and 2015, The Australian, The Sleepers Almanac, The Lifted Brow, Seizure Online, The Canary Press, Kyoto Journal, The Fish Anthology and Fixi Novo’s HEAT.

Books — or in Translation(s)/Editing(s)

BooksActually’s Gold Standard 2016, by Ahmad Tohari Avianti Armand Eliza Vitri Handayani Laksmi Pamuntjak Tiffany Tsao

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