Juli Min

Biography

Juli Min is a Korean American writer based in Shanghai. She holds an MFA in fiction from Warren Wilson, and she studied Russian and comparative literature at Harvard University. Min is the author of the novel Shanghailanders (Spiegel & Grau, 2024).

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FICTION / Fiction 2024

Japanese Denim

By Juli Min ,  Illustration by Melanie Lambrick

When I left Anhui for Shanghai, at the innocent age of seventeen, the recruiter told me that the theme of the hotel where I was going to work was “rustic farm life.”

Illustration by Melanie Lambrick