Muriel Leung

Muriel
Leung
Art Discipline: 
Writer
Address: 
Los Angeles, CA
United States
Dates of Residence: 
Aug 23, 2021 to Oct 1, 2021

Muriel Leung is the author of Imagine Us, The Swarm (Nightboat Books), Bone Confetti (Noemi Press), and Images Seen to Images Felt (Antenna) in collaboration with visual artist Kristine Thompson. A Pushcart Prize nominated writer, her writing can be found in The Baffler, Cream City Review, Gulf Coast, The Collagist, Fairy Tale Review, and others.

She is a recipient of fellowships to Kundiman, VONA/Voices Workshop and the Community of Writers. As the current Poetry Co-Editor of Apogee Journal, she has also served as former Editor-in-Chief of Gold Line Press and guest editor of the Bettering American anthology. She also co-hosts The Blood-Jet Writing Hour Podcast with Rachelle Cruz and MT Vallarta. She is a member of Miresa Collective, a feminist speakers bureau.

Currently, she is an Andrew W. Mellon Humanities in a Digital World fellow at the University of Southern California where she is completing her PhD in Creative Writing and Literature. She is from Queens, NY.