Julian Iralu

Julian Iralu (she, her, hers) is a Naga-American from the Angami Meyase clan in Nagaland, India. She grew up in Gallup, New Mexico. Julian was a 2022 PEN America Emerging Voices Fellow, a 2020 GrubStreet Emerging Writer Fellow, and her novel-in-progress was shortlisted for the 2023 First Pages Prize. Her work has generously been supported by The Naga American Foundation, the Writers’ Room of Boston, and Boston Writers of Color. Julian’s writing centers around family violence, the horror of the everyday, and the Naga diaspora.