Hi, I’m Julia, a California-based writer.

I have been writing professionally for over a decade, with a focus on travel, culture, food, and mental health (especially the problematic Troubled Teen Industry). I am the founder of Small World This Is, a blog focused on California travel.

I was born and raised in San Francisco, and currently live in Southern California. I have lived in Krakow, Poland, and Izmir, Turkey, and find excuses to write about them both as often as I can.

I have work published in Curbed SF, Roads and Kingdoms, Berkeleyside, and BayArea.com, as well as other publications.