Muriel Leung

[5] While working on her MFA at Louisiana State University, Leung completed her poetry collection Bone Confetti, which won the 2015 Noemi Press Book Award.

[10] A review about the book in Hyperallergic states, "The poems can be grisly, gothic, and obsessed, not to mention quirky and disturbing.

"[11] Also in 2016, Fairy Tale Review nominated her poem "How to Fall in Love in a Time of Unnamable Disaster" for a Pushcart Prize.

[4][9] She is a co-host of the Blood-Jet Writing Hour poetry podcast[14] along with American Book Award winner Rachelle Cruz.

In a varied range of physical and poetic shapes and typography, Leung creates a lyric informed by theory, autobiography, and essay.

Its rigors are complex and yet a reader feels nothing so much as invited in, and the rewards are plentiful and profound.” Leung identifies as an “Asian American poet.”[4] She is a doctoral student in Creative Writing at USC and resides in Los Angeles.