Muriel Leung

Originally from Queens, New York, Muriel Leung is the author of Imagine Us, The Swarm, winner of the Nightboat Books Poetry Prize in 2019; Bone Confetti, winner of the Noemi Press Poetry Book Award in 2016; and Images Seen to Images Felt, in collaboration with artist Kristine Thompson (Antenna, 2018). Leung's writing can be found in The Baffler, Cream City Review, Gulf Coast, The Collagist, Fairy Tale Review, and elsewhere. Her work has been featured in NPR's Morning Edition, PBS NewsHour, and Huffington Post.

Leung is a recipient of fellowships to Kundiman, VONA/Voices Workshop, and the Community of Writers where she was awarded the James D. Houston Memorial Fellowship. She is a poetry editor at Apogee Journal and has previously served as editor at Gold Line Press, New Delta Review, Bettering American Anthology, and Banango Street. Leung 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.

Leung 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.