Photo by Marie Bland
ARIEL CHU 朱詠慈 is a Taiwanese American writer. She is currently a PhD candidate in Creative Writing and Literature at the University of Southern California, as well as the fiction editor of Nat. Brut.
Ariel received her MFA in Creative Writing from Syracuse University, where she served as the co-Editor in Chief of Salt Hill Journal and received a 2019 P.D. Soros Fellowship for New Americans. From 2020 to 2021, Ariel was a visiting Luce Scholar at National Chengchi University in Taipei, where she researched contemporary queer Taiwanese literature and co-edited a folio of contemporary queer Taiwanese literature for the Transpacific Literary Project. Ariel has also received support from the Steinbeck Fellowship and Kundiman.
Ariel’s work can be found in The Rumpus, them., and Black Warrior Review, among others. In 2019, Ariel was also nominated for the Pushcart Prize and Best Small Fictions. A complete list of her publications can be found here.
Ariel is currently working on a novel and short story collection. She welcomes all attempts to contact her.
ARIEL CHU 