Ariel Chu is a PhD student in Creative Writing and Literature at the University of Southern California, where she is completing a short story collection and novel with the support of a Steinbeck Fellowship. She received an MFA in Creative Writing from Syracuse University, where she was awarded the Shirley Jackson Prize in Fiction. A former editor-in-chief of Salt Hill Journal, a 2019 P.D. Soros Fellow, and a 2020-2021 Luce Scholar in Taiwan, Ariel has been published by The Masters Review, The Common, and Waxwing, among others. Visit her at
ariel-chu.com.
