About

I’m a culture writer and a magazine editor. In my work, I seek to illuminate the unknown, overlooked, and little recognized. More than anything, I love to write profiles about creative people and to draw attention to people who are doing meaningful work in the world.

My writing has appeared in The New York Times, Interview Magazine, and Spin. Since 2014, I’ve worked as a research editor for The New York Times, first at T: The New York Times Style Magazine and since 2015 at The New York Times Magazine. Before that, I was assistant managing editor for Interview. In 2018, I got married, so my name (and byline) changed from Julia Yepes to Julia Bozzone. I live outside of Philadelphia.

In 2021, I wrote a belated obituary for The New York Times about the Spanish-Mexican painter Remedios Varo. Though she died of a heart attack in 1963 at age 54, the elaborately detailed, dreamlike works she made are reaching the height of recognition only now. (Leer en español aquí.) In 2020, I had a few opportunities to speak with some articulate and insightful kids about race for The New York Times for Kids. The New York Times ran a series of Instagram visual stories based on my piece about a Black Lives Matter mural in Durango.

Some of the most satisfying interviews I've conducted so far have been with experimental, avant-garde, or independent filmmakers including Alejandro Jodorowsky, Philippe Garrel, Alex Ross Perry and Carlen Altman, and Albert Serra.

Some of my favorite profiles and essays have been on people who are good with words, including the singer and songwriter Will Roan, the filmmaker, novelist, and poet Nelly Kaplan, and the musician and lyricist Pete Doherty. 

I've also been thrilled to have the chance to highlight the artistry of the filmmaker and cinematographer Sean Price Williams, the jazz guitarist Monnette Sudler (and her band Sounds of Liberation), the fashion designer Thien Venus Milo, the filmmaker and screenwriter Agnieszka Smoczynska, the feature filmmaker and documentarian Terry Zwigoff, and the actor and author Terence Stamp.

One short magazine-style profile I wrote is about the rising writer, director, and actress Quinn Shephard. And speaking of other brief dispatches, I once had ten minutes at a film-festival garden party to talk to director and Oscar-winning screenwriter Sofia Coppola.