Julia Kornberg was born in Buenos Aires in 1996 and lives in New York City. She is the award-winning author of Berlin Atomized, published by Astra House in 2024 and forthcoming in Spanish from Anagrama Publishing House in 2026. She writes fiction in Spanish and literary criticism in English. Her work has appeared in The New York Review of Books, The Drift, The Jewish Review of Books, and Bookforum, among other publications. Julia has a Ph.D. in Spanish and Portuguese from Princeton University.