Julia Richard spent the majority of her childhood abroad, between Holland, Gabon, and Libya. In 2007, she won the Maupassant prize for young short stories organized by the Association of Members of the Order of Academic Palms (AMOPA). In 2018, she published Faites vos jeux with Le Héron d’Argent publisher, then Carne in 2020 with HSN publisher, finalist for the Masterton prize. In 2023, she returned with Paternoster which inaugurated the “ir_réel” collection, still published by HSN.