WHO IS THIS GUY?

A MacDowell and Hawthornden Castle Fellow, Leland Cheuk is an award-winning author of three books of fiction, most recently the novel NO GOOD VERY BAD ASIAN (2019). Cheuk’s work has been covered in Buzzfeed, The Paris Review, VICE, San Francisco Chronicle, and elsewhere, and has appeared or is forthcoming in publications such as NPR, The Washington Post, San Francisco Chronicle, Salon, among other outlets. He is the founder of the indie press 7.13 Books. You can follow him on Twitter @lcheuk and at lelandcheuk.com.

Represented by Annie Hwang of Ayesha Pande Literary and reachable by email at leland.cheuk at gmail.com.

You can buy Leland Cheuk’s books at his Bookshop!

IN THE NEWS

Los Angeles Times
Meet Jean Chen Ho and the San Gabriel Valley Food Club (2022)

The Rumpus
REVIEW: “Calling It Like It Is: Leland Cheuk’s No Good Very Bad Asian” (2020)

Otherppl with Brad Listi
“Leland Cheuk on Writing Through Trauma” (2019)

Electric Literature
“Leland Cheuk Writes The Asian American Antihero We Always Needed” (2019)

The Millions
“Dear Someone: On Asian-American Writers and Letters As Storytelling” (2019)

Los Angeles Review of Books
“Never Too Soon: A Conversation with Leland Cheuk” (2019)

Buzzfeed
“18 Indie Press Books That Deserve Your Attention” (2019)

San Francisco Chronicle
“Leland Cheuk wanted to write about an Asian American Comedian. So he started telling his own jokes.” (2019)

KBOO’s Between the Covers podcast
“Host Ken Jones talks with Leland Cheuk” (2019)

Chicago Review of Books
“Leland Cheuk On Comedy And Writing” (2019)

The Rumpus
“So Funny It Kills: Getting Serious with Leland Cheuk” (2019)

The Brooklyn Rail
“REVIEW: No Good Very Bad Asian” (2019)

Literary Hub
“When Novelists Become Method Actors” (2019)

Kenyon Review
“Publisher Spotlight: Leland Cheuk of 7.13 Books” (2019)

The Paris Review
“Subverting the Chinese Immigrant Story” (2018)

Catapult
“Let Me Pass Away” (2017)

Salon
“I wanted to publish before I died” (2016)

The Millions
The System Is Rigged: The Millions Interviews Leland Cheuk (2017)

VICE
The Asian American Literature That Got Me Through 2016 (2016)

The Rumpus
Interview with Leland Cheuk (2016)

Asian-American Writers Workshop’s The Margins
The Misadventures of Asian Americans (2016)

Minorities in Publishing podcast
Debut Episode with Sophia Chester, Leland Cheuk, and Mira Jacob (2016)

Asian-America Podcast with Ken Fong
Look into the abyss with Leland Cheuk (2016)

This Podcast Will Change Your Life with Ben Tanzer
Semi-Plausible, starring the Leland Cheuk (2016)

The Other Stories with Ilana Masad
Episode 81 – Excerpt from THE MISADVENTURES OF SULLIVER PONG (2016)

CURRICULUM VITAE

BOOKS
NO GOOD VERY BAD ASIAN, novel (2019, C&R Press)
LETTERS FROM DINOSAURS, stories (2016, Thought Catalog Books)
THE MISADVENTURES OF SULLIVER PONG, a novel (2015, CCLaP Publishing in North America, and 2018, Guangdong Economic Publishing Group in China)

PERSONAL ESSAYS
Literary Hub
“When Novelists Become Method Actors” (2019)

APPLE, TREE: Essays on Seeing Our Parents and Seeing Ourselves, Edited by Lise Funderburg (University of Nebraska Press)
“Self-Made Men” (September 2019)

Catapult
“Let Me Pass Away” (September 2017)

SalonZine
“A Grandfather’s Guide to the Resistance” (June 2017)

Salon
“I wanted to publish before I died” (2016)

SHORT FICTION:
Prairie Schooner (Fall 2021)
“Uncle Juicy’s America Boy”

Electric Literature’s Recommend Reading (November 2021)
“Office of the Mind” 

The Santa Monica Review
“SitterSource” (Spring 2021)

Maudlin House
“The List” (November 2019) 

Hyphen
“An excerpt of NO GOOD VERY BAD ASIAN” (October 2019)

The Offing
“My Horoscopic Disadvantages” (October 2019)

Cleaver Magazine
“4:44” (October 2019) 

Five 2 One
“Sugar Cubes” (Aug 2019)

Heavy Feather Review: The Future print issue
“My SMS” (May 2019)

Bending Genres
“The Okay Spa” (April 2019)

Cosmonauts Avenue
“The Game Cellar” (March 2019)

Drunk Monkeys
“Passing Days” (January 2019)

BULL: Men’s Fiction
“The Legend of Jon Bamboo” (November 2018)

Joyland Magazine
“The Other You’s” (October 2018)

Vol.1 Brooklyn
“Confessions of the Lovestruck” (August 2018)

X-Ray Magazine
“FriendHyre” (August 2018)

Atticus Review
“The Whitener” (June 2018)

Five 2 One
“Sated” (March 2018)

Flapper House
“Investment Vehicle,” “Vote for Arnie,” “Seasons Greetings (Everything Will Be Fine)” (June 2017)

The Margins
“Funeral By The Arcade” (2016)

Bartleby Snopes
“League of Losers” (2016)

Vol. 1 Brooklyn
“The Bulletpoints of Valley Pete” (2016)

Fiction Advocate
“The Art of Denial” (2015)

Valparaiso Fiction Review
“Pyramid Schemes” (2014)

Tahoma Literary Review
“A Letter From Your Dinosaur” (2014)

Lunch Ticket
“First-Person Shooter” (2014)

Pif Magazine
“Blacklights” (2013)

AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS:
Monson Arts (2022)
The Studios at Key West (2020)
Willapa Bay AiR (2018)
Hawthornden Castle, Scotland (2018)
Caldera (2018, 2019)
Djerassi Resident Artists Program (2017)
I-Park Foundation (2013)
Brush Creek Foundation for the Arts (2012)
New York Mills Regional Cultural Center (2012)
MacDowell Colony Fellow (2010)

EDITORIAL POSITIONS:
Founder, 7.13 Books (2016-present)
Fiction Editor, Newfound Journal (2017-2019, 5 issues)

TEACHING POSITIONS:
Community of Writers at Squaw Valley (Summer 2019)
The Writing Institute at Sarah Lawrence College (2017-present)

EDUCATION:
MFA in Creative Writing, Lesley University (2011)
B.S. in Business Administration, University of California at Berkeley (1998)