Julia Cooke has written for The Village Voice, Condé Nast Traveller and Portfolio.com, Metropolis, Monocle, The Christian Science Monitor, Guernica, and Design Observer, among other papers and magazines.

She’s written about her experiences buying gourmet food on Havana’s black market, interviewed Cuba’s most influential collectors of contemporary art, covered Mexico City’s first and only sex fair, profiled the  most prolific design writer (and, arguably, collector of Fascist memorabilia) in the U.S., and explored the urban planning woes that have led to Mexico City’s sprawl. She has also worked as a translator, for example researching “The Castaways,” by Mark Singer, published in 2007 in The New Yorker.

Follow her on Twitter: @juliaccooke