Julie Iromuanya is an American author and academic. Born in 1982, she is the daughter of Igbo Nigerian immigrants and grew up in the American Midwest. Her 2015 novel, Mr. and Mrs. Doctor, was a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, shortlisted for the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Fiction, runner-up for the 2016 Etisalat Prize for Literature, and longlisted for the 2015 National Book Critics Circle John Leonard Prize for Debut Fiction.

Her creative writing has been published in various journals, including The Kenyon Review, Passages North, Cream City Review, and Tampa Review. Her scholarly work has been featured in Converging Identities: Blackness in the Modern Diaspora (Carolina Academic Press).

Julie has been shortlisted for several literary awards, such as the Kenyon Review Short Fiction Contest, Glimmer Train's Very Short Fiction and Family Matters contests, the Rona Jaffe Foundation fellowship, and the Miles Morland Writing Scholarship. She holds a B.A. from the University of Central Florida and both an M.A. and a Ph.D.