Writings in the Raw

For my brother, on his birthday

Julia Halprin Jackson May 11, 2010

Josh, for your birthday, I'd like to dedicate the following Screeching Weasels song to you.

Thanks for letting me into your club. Happy birthday to pretty much the best brother in the world.

And yes, I'm going to work on getting you that skate deck. One that is okay for you to break. ;)

Julia Halprin Jackson

writer. editor. doodler. er.

I write.

I doodle.

I'm at work on my first book, a collection of linked short stories that follows a community of expatriates living on the southern coast of Spain.

I care about stuff. Like curing type 1 diabetes. And marriage equality. And rights for immigrants. And public radio. And espanol. And Frank O'Hara and Jennifer Egan and Federico Garcia Lorca and Tony Kushner. You know, cool stuff.

I make postcards that are also stories.

Sometimes I read stories and poems out loud.

Sometimes I go to conferences.

You can find my short stories, essays, poems and flash fictio in a variety of places in print and online. If you Google really hard, you might find the two short radio pieces I produced on a badass NPR affiliate in San Francisco.

This is where you can go to find out who I am.