Chanlee Luu

Chanlee Luu is a Vietnamese-Chinese American writer from Southern Virginia. She received her MFA in creative writing from Hollins University, BS in chemical engineering and minor in Global Sustainability from UVA, where she competed in poetry slams. She writes about identity, pop culture, science, politics, and everything in between. Her work can be found in Snowflake Magazine, the gamut mag, Tint Journal, Honey Lit, The Offing, and diaCRITICS, among others. She is the winner of the 2024 Jean Feldman Poetry Award from the Washington Writers' Publishing House; her debut collection, The Machine Autocorrects Code to I, was published on October 8. One of her poems is currently on display at 50 Years of HOPE and HA-HAs, a Vietnamese American art exhibition that celebrates the expansiveness of the diaspora, rooted in the DMV (it will run mid-January to early March).