Greetings, friends!
And hello to everyone who found their way here via the Billy Penn article. No time like the present to reintroduce myself: I’m Julian. Fun facts about me:
I live, write, and work in Lansdowne, just 2 miles outside of Philadelphia.
I’m grew up in Southern California and went to school in Oakland to study queer/trans theory. I briefly lived in West Philly before wandering back to suburbia.
I’m married to the amazing Zach Ozma. We have 2 (mostly) sweet old dogs.
I’ve spent the last 7ish years working on a novel about queers working in a haunted house. The last 4 years have been the only productive ones.
I’m left-handed (in the evil way).
I’m prone to rambling when I’m nervous (I’m usually nervous).
I tend to overuse parentheses—and m-dashes.
In my free time, I run Collective Lit, an open collective of writers and readers. Founded in 2019, Collective Lit consists of this newsletter, a weekly writing group (Sit & Write), and a book club (Sit & Read). All of these resources ar…