author, editor, artist

Julia Desiree Merican is a writer from Kuala Lumpur and the author of Plain Things for Lustrous. She holds a Master of Studies in English Literature from Oxford and a Writing MA from the Royal College of Art.

Her words have appeared in various print and digital publications, and once, quite excitingly, on an unfurling scroll in a gallery. For more personal scrawls, she writes an occasional newsletter, Glimmers and Inklings.

Currently, Julia lives in London and finds writing in the third person quite a lot of fun. She thinks often about unwieldy feelings and ruined spaces, how heritage is made and broken, and the art of living so gently you barely make a sound.