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California Institute of the Arts

Muriel Leung

Pronouns: School of Critical Studies

Faculty, MFA Creative Writing Program

Muriel Leung
Email address: mleung@calarts.edu
Phone number: 661-255-2282
Office address:
E116
California Institute of the Arts
24700 McBean Parkway
Valencia, California 91355
Degrees:
  • PhD
    University of Southern California

Muriel Leung is the author of How to Fall in Love in a Time of Unnamable Disaster (W.W. Norton & Company) and other collections that include the 2022 Poetry Society of America’s Four Quartets Prize winning Imagine Us, The Swarm (Nightboat Books), Bone Confetti (Noemi Press), and Images Seen to Images Felt (Antenna) in collaboration with artist Kristine Thompson. 

She is a recipient of fellowships to Kundiman, VONA/Voices Workshop, Community of Writers, Mendocino Coast Writers’ Conference, among others. She is on the Board of Directors for Apogee Journal. She received her PhD in Creative Writing and Literature from University of Southern California where she was also the Andrew W. Mellon Humanities in a Digital World fellow. She is from Queens, New York.