Ariel Chu

About Ariel Chu

Ariel Chu is a Taiwanese American writer from Eastvale, California. Her first book, Antibachelorette, is forthcoming from Split/Lip Press in 2027.

Ariel pursued an undergraduate degree in English at Williams College, studying abroad at Oxford University for a year. In the summer of 2016, Ariel received a Robert G. Wilmers, Jr. 1990 Memorial Travel Fellowship to conduct literary research in Reykjavík, Iceland. In 2017, Ariel graduated with highest honors and the title of Class Poet. She was also awarded the Hubbard Hutchinson Class of 1917 Memorial Fellowship for excellence in creative writing.

In 2020, Ariel graduated from the Syracuse University Creative Writing MFA program, where she served as an editor in chief of Salt Hill Journal and won the Syracuse Shirley Jackson Prize in Fiction. From 2020 to 2021, Ariel studied contemporary queer Taiwanese literature as a Luce Scholar in Taipei, where she co-edited the digital anthology "Queer Time: A Special Notebook of Taiwanese Tongzhi Literature" with Chi Ta-wei (Asian American Writers' Workshop).

Ariel’s fiction can be found in Joyland, Black Warrior Review, The Offing, and more, and her fiction has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize, Best Small Fictions, and the Best of the Net Awards. In addition to being a 2019 P.D. Soros Fellow, Ariel has received support from the Kundiman Fellowship, the Steinbeck Fellowship, and the Luce Scholar Program, among others.

Ariel is currently a PhD Candidate at the University of Southern California, where she studies Creative Writing and Literature. She also serves as the fiction editor for Gold Line Press and Nat. Brut. An aspiring creative writing professor, Ariel hopes to aid young writers in building community and articulating their identities. Visit her at ariel-chu.com.