Julia Scott is a noted Canadian-American writer and journalist, known primarily for her work in print and audio.

Scott is the senior producer of Your Undivided Attention, the podcast of the Center for Humane Technology and part of the TED Audio Collective.

[2] Additionally, Scott was senior producer of Murderville, Texas, a 2023 investigative podcast from The Intercept, which won a National Headliner Award in the criminal justice category, and was named an honoree in the 2023 Webby Awards.

[3] "Bon Voyage", Scott's 2012 radio documentary for the BBC World Service, was praised by The Guardian as "a vivid, beautifully told story of a couple facing terminal illness"[4] and broadcast internationally, winning the Excellence in Journalism Award from the NLGJA[5] and becoming a finalist for the Radio Academy Award.

[7] Scott is the editor of the anthology Drivel: Deliciously Bad Writing by Your Favorite Authors (Perigee Books, 2014), cited as "classic" by Vanity Fair and featuring contributions by Dave Eggers, Gillian Flynn, Mary Roach, Rick Moody and Chuck Palahniuk, among others.