Muriel Leung

Muriel Leung is BMI’s inaugural 117° Fellow and will be in residence in Las Vegas this summer.  Named for Las Vegas’ hottest day on record in 2023, this residency provides a writer with a two-month fellowship in Las Vegas during June and July. The fellowship acknowledges that people live in (and not only visit) Las Vegas year-round and is intended to contribute to Las Vegas’ existing literary community with programming during the summer months.

Muriel Leung is the author of the novel How to Fall in Love in a Time of Unnamable Disaster (W.W. Norton & Company) and several poetry collections that include Imagine Us, The Swarm (Nightboat Books), Bone Confetti (Noemi Press), and Images Seen to Images Felt (Antenna) in collaboration with artist Kristine Thompson. Her work has been featured in PBS Newshour, NPR, The New York Times, The Guardian, among others. She is on the Board of Directors for Apogee Journal. She was the Andrew W. Mellon Humanities in a Digital World Fellow at the PhD in Creative Writing and Literature program at the University of Southern California. Currently, she is based in Los Angeles where she teaches at the MFA in Creative Writing program at California Institute of the Arts.