Writings in the Raw

"A Question of Karma" featured on Berkeley Fiction Review podcast

Julia Halprin Jackson October 3, 2024

The story, which centers on a group of young adults living in San Francisco during the Great Recession, was published in 2023 in the print edition of Berkeley Fiction Review. It is available to stream on Spotify and YouTube.

Many thanks to the talented team who made this happen:

Characters:
Narrator 1: Alexander Flores
Narrator 2: Emily Choi
Fran: Avantika Chitturi
Wren: Georgia Kerr
Marian: Emily Hamill
Kira: Isabel Chen
Fran's parents: Emily Choi
New roommates: Alexander Flores

Editors: Luna Garza-Hillman & Kylie Min

"A Question of Karma" finds its home at the Berkeley Fiction Review

Julia Halprin Jackson June 15, 2023

I’m delighted to share that my short story, “A Question of Karma,” has been published in issue 43 of the Berkeley Fiction Review. I especially love this illustration by Tracy Sun. It means a lot for me for this piece to find a Bay Area home, as this is an especially regional story. Many thanks to the editorial staff housing this story about intentional living.

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.