Julia Liu (she/her) is a Chinese-American writer based in New England. The 2025 Connecticut Youth Poet Laureate runner-up, Julia is a Commended Foyle Poet of the Year, an American Voices Awardee, and a 2x YoungArts winner in poetry. Her work appears or is forthcoming in RHINO Poetry, Wildness, The Shore, Gone Lawn, Gigantic Sequins, Eunoia Review, and elsewhere. She has been recognized by the Alliance for Young Artists and Writers, Interlochen Arts Academy, Pulitzer Center, Princeton University, Poetry Society, Connecticut Office of the Arts, Hollins University, Smith College, the Telluride Institute, among others. She is also a Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net nominee.Julia serves as the editor-in-chief of The Loom, Co-President of Young Poets Workshops, and managing editor for the Loomis Chaffee Log. She edits for Aster Lit, Eucalyptus Lit, Hominum Journal, alongside other literary journals. She is also an alumna of the Kenyon and Ellipsis workshops as well as an Adroit and SUNHOUSE mentee, studying under Gyasi Hall, Simon Shieh, Jessica Lynn Suchon, and Maria Gray.

Editorial Work

The Loom, Editor-in-Chief (2025—)The Loomis Chaffee Log, Managing Editor (2025—)Aster Lit, Associate Editor (2025—)Young Poets Workshops, Co-President (2025—)Eucalyptus Lit, Senior Editor (2024—)Hominum Journal, Poetry Editor (2024—)Sophon Lit, Poetry Editor (2024—)Biochar Magazine, Poetry Editor (2024—)Pencilhouse, Writing Critic (2023—)Handpicked Poetry, Social Media Manager (2023—2024)

Education/Workshops

Adroit Journal Summer Mentorship Program, studied under Jessica Lynn Suchon (2025)Cosmic Writers Mentorship Program, studied under Sunny Ajitabh (2025)SUNHOUSE Literary Mentorship, studied under Maria Gray (2024)Kenyon Review Young Writers Workshop, studied under Gyasi Hall (2024)Ellipsis Advanced Poetry Workshop, studied under Simon Shieh (2024)Hominum Journal Workshop: Writing Hope, studied under Bella Rotker (2023)

Features & Performances

Designed and hosted workshop, Poetry as Confession (August 2025) *Contact for recordingReading with Adroit Journal Summer Mentorship Program (July 2025)Reading with Cha Papi for Open Mic (October 2024)Reading with Young Poets Workshops for Open Mic (September 2024)Reading with SUNHOUSE Literary (August 2024)Reading with Kenyon Review Writing Workshop (June 2024)Reading with Windsor Arts Center for MLK Day Celebration (January 2023)

Select Publications

"Dialing Home" in RHINO Poetry. (forthcoming)"Ma Tells a Story While Cutting My Hair" in The Poetry Society's Foyle anthology. (forthcoming)"Exit Wound" in WILDNESS."Daybreak" and "State Lines" in The Shore."Pasture Land" in Gigantic Sequins."Interlaken, 2019" and "Proximity" in Cloudscent Journal."Winter Love Poem" in Gutter Mag."Fortune Cookie" in Talking Gourds."Impermanence" in Gone Lawn."I Dreamed // I Lost" in SUNHOUSE Literary Folio."Fishbone" in Connecticut River Review."self-portrait as a hopeless romantic" in Eunoia Review."oranges" in Metachrosis Literary."Interstellar" in CUTBOW Quarterly."trench song" in Livina Press.

Select Prose

"Recollections"**Awarded American Voices medal by the Alliance for Young Artists & Writers

Select Artwork

"In Memoriam" - cover art for Issue 6 of Hot Pot Magazine.

Honors

Foyle Young Poets of the Year Award, Commended Poet. (2025)National YoungArts Foundation, 2x Winner in Poetry. (2025, 2026)Connecticut Youth Poet Laureate, Runner-up. (2025)Interlochen Virginia B. Ball Creative Writing Scholarship, Finalist. (2025)RHINO Poetry Founders' Prize, Finalist. (2025)Smith College High School Poetry Prize, Semifinalist. (2025)Princeton Leonard L. Milberg '53 High School Poetry Prize, Honorable Mention. (2025)Nancy Thorp Poetry Contest, Honorable Mention. (2025)Scholastic Art & Writing Awards, American Voices Award, National Gold Medal, Gold Key 4x. (2024)Fischer Prize, Finalist. (2024)Lynn DeCaro Poetry Contest, First Place. (2024)Woorilla Poetry Prize, Shortlist. (2024)Gigantic Sequins 13th Annual Poetry Contest, Finalist. (2024)Sundress Publications, Best of the Net nominee. (2024)Pulitzer Center Fighting Words Poetry Contest, Longlist. (2024)Frontier Poetry OPEN Prize, Longlist. (2024)Dawn Prize for Poetry, Longlist. (2024)Oxford Flash Fiction Prize, Longlist. (2024)Metachrosis Literary, Pushcart Prize nominee. (2023)Scholastic Art & Writing Awards, National Gold Medal, Silver Key 2x. (2021)