editorial / print design // recent projects
Not A Cult
Not a Cult Media is an independent book publisher based in Los Angeles, California. They were created in 2016 for the purpose of publishing underrepresented and marginalized voices. Julianna currently serves as the Editorial Designer for all print publications in the 2020/21 catalog. She also sometimes produces social media content for NAC's instagram and website.
Editorial Design
Birthday Girl
By Sheila J. Sadr
Sheila J. Sadr’s poetry is only the most visible manifestation of her creative drive. As an educator and therapist-in-training, she is deeply grounded in her local community and the poetry world of Southern California. That same restorative energy animates her debut collection Birthday Girl, winner of the 2018 Stories Award for Poetry.
This book is for anyone engaged in the strange survival of themselves and others, and it’s also a beautiful addition to a new tradition of Iranian-American poetry alongside writers like Kaveh Akbar, Anis Mojgani, and Solmaz Sharif.
Birthday Girl can be purchased here.
Zigzags
By Kamala Puligandla
"Kamala Puligandla's Zigzags is a tender story about community as family, a love letter to a city and a season. This novel feels like summer, its tangle of bodies, all its sticky longing."
—Safia Elhillo, author of The January Children
Zigzags can be purchased here.
Well Played
By Beau Sia
These poems began as an answer. In the face of the undeniable, they became a reckoning. Of the lies that are lived to feel belonging. Of the lies that are told to hide shame. Of the lies that are believed to maintain within illusions. Well Played is a warning to the present, a welcoming of the truth, and a poet working to earn his way.
The poetry in Beau Sia's Well Played are fearless, hard-hitting, uncompromising. His own unflinching self-reflection on race, colonialism, assimilation, representation, white supremacy, identity is a ever-shifting kaleidoscope of words, timelines, and layers of being that spin into something like a survival guide, a trickster's song, a call to action, an incantation for a kinder and more just world.
— Yumi Sakugawa, author of Your Illustrated Guide to Becoming One with the Universe
Well Played can be purchased here.
Hours Inside Out
By Isabella Preisz
In this debut collection, Isabella Preisz explores what it means to exist in simultaneity. Across these visceral poems, Preisz recreates moments of adolescence, sexual exploration, shame, and disassociation to examine what it means to occupy the body. She fragments language to display growing as a conglomerate experience of past, present, and future remembrance. Catching language on the boundary of formation, she exposes the process of healing as fluid as egg yolk — gooey, runny, and easily ruptured.
Hours Inside Out can be purchased here.
content creation
social media design
Designing social promotional content for print publications at Not A Cult.
custom email design
Organizing and coordinating all digital resources and assets required for email marketing campaigns. Working with developers and copywriters to reach email campaign design objectives.
As the editorial designer, Julianna designs and implements the layout and visual aesthetics of these books for Not A Cult. The publications on this page are all part of the 2020 catalog, and four more books are in the works for winter/spring 2021.
all images & text pertaining to the publications via Not A Cult media
