Julieta Vitullo is a Seattle-based bilingual writer, playwright and dramaturge born and raised in Argentina. Her novel La huella de tu nombre (The Imprint of your Name) won the First Prize for a Novel Written in Spanish in the United States organized by UNAM San Antonio and Letras de la Frontera. Her creative nonfiction and short stories have appeared in Into The Void, The Normal School, The Fabulist Words & Art, Hawaii Pacific Review and The Massachusetts Review. She was twice nominated to a Pushcart Prize and received an honorable mention from the CRAFT Creative Nonfiction Award.
Julieta holds an MA in English and a PhD in Spanish from Rutgers. Her 2012 book Islas imaginadas. La guerra de Malvinas en la literatura y el cine argentinos (Imaginary Islands: The Malvinas/Falklands War in Argentine Literature and Film) pioneered the critical analysis of the fictions produced in the aftermath of the 1982 conflict between Argentina and Great Britain. She's the protagonist and co-scriptwriter of the 2012 award winning documentary film La forma exacta de las islas (The Exact Shape of the Islands). Her articles on literature and culture have appeared in books (Greenwood Press, University of Pittsburgh, London University), as well as in academic journals (Kamchatka, Intertexts, Hispamérica).
She's an alumna of the 2020 Tin House Summer Workshop, and a recipient of fellowships and grants from Fulbright, Artist Trust, Rutgers and Boston University.
A member of the Seattle-based theatre company eSe Teatro, eight of her plays have been presented in Seattle, including the most recent Fermín’s Great Book of Dreams, a fantasy for all ages, and Two Big Black Bags, which she directed. Sometimes she also plays with typewriters.
Julieta lives outside of Seattle with her husband, their three sons, and a majestic Rhodesian Ridgeback named Daisy.
Julieta holds an MA in English and a PhD in Spanish from Rutgers. Her 2012 book Islas imaginadas. La guerra de Malvinas en la literatura y el cine argentinos (Imaginary Islands: The Malvinas/Falklands War in Argentine Literature and Film) pioneered the critical analysis of the fictions produced in the aftermath of the 1982 conflict between Argentina and Great Britain. She's the protagonist and co-scriptwriter of the 2012 award winning documentary film La forma exacta de las islas (The Exact Shape of the Islands). Her articles on literature and culture have appeared in books (Greenwood Press, University of Pittsburgh, London University), as well as in academic journals (Kamchatka, Intertexts, Hispamérica).
She's an alumna of the 2020 Tin House Summer Workshop, and a recipient of fellowships and grants from Fulbright, Artist Trust, Rutgers and Boston University.
A member of the Seattle-based theatre company eSe Teatro, eight of her plays have been presented in Seattle, including the most recent Fermín’s Great Book of Dreams, a fantasy for all ages, and Two Big Black Bags, which she directed. Sometimes she also plays with typewriters.
Julieta lives outside of Seattle with her husband, their three sons, and a majestic Rhodesian Ridgeback named Daisy.