Julia Cooke’s writing has appeared in Portfolio.com, Metropolis, Azure, Art Basel Miami Beach Magazine, L.A. Weekly, Gatopardo, and Arquine among other magazines and newspapers. She is a frequent contributor to Monocle and Travel + Leisure Mexico. Topics have included the entrepreneur behind Mexico City’s first and only sex fair, burgeoning American collections of Cuban contemporary art, and how urban planning woes have shaped the Mexican capital’s sprawling growth. She especially enjoys writing about urban issues, traveling, and people who have experienced and done things that she has not.

From February 2007 through February 2009, Julia wrote a monthly art column for Mexican Time, Inc. men’s magazine Life & Style; subjects included a local museum that trains its unionized security staff in art history and why art mattered in Obama’s presidential campaign. Julia occasionally works as a fixer and translator, for example researching “The Castaways,” by Mark Singer, published in 2007 in The New Yorker.

Julia grew up in Portland, Oregon. From there, she migrated south(east) to Washington, D.C., Mexico City, and, finally, Havana. She graduated magna cum laude with a degree in literature from Georgetown University and studied Spanish, art history, music and politics at the University of Havana.

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