Graduate Fellow
Cynthia Liu is a diasporic North American Chinese writer (she/hers). Her MFA receives support from a British Columbia Arts Council fellowship and she is a 2025-2026 Critical Play Lab Fellow in UBC’s Pop Culture Cluster. She has published prose in The Progressive, The Washington Post, an anthology of genderqueer writing, and emerge24; her fiction received support from Artist Trust GAP Grant, the Jack Straw Writers Program, and the Elizabeth Mills Crothers Short Story Prize. Residencies include Banff, Mineral Arts, Hedgebrook, and Vermont Studio Center. Screenwriting accolades include the Coalition of Asian Pacifics in Entertainment New Writers Award and a Worldfest Houston Film Festival Bronze Award (for a romcom short released on dvd). She’s an alum of Film Independent’s Project Involve and the Justice For My Sister BIPOC SciFi Screenwriting Lab. She lives on the unceded traditional territories and waterways of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations.