Creative Writing Program
Department of English
65-30 Kissena Blvd.
Flushing, NY 11367

718-997-4600

Unisphere photo by Rik Panganiban; other photos by Charles Martin

Professor Jocelyn Lieu

Klapper 706, 718-997-4603
jocelynlieu@gmail.com

Jocelyn Lieu is the author of a 9/11 memoir titled What Isn’t There: Inside a Season of Change (Nation Books, 2007) and a collection of stories, Potential Weapons (Graywolf Press, 2004),published in France with the title Discordances (Éditions Phébus, 2007). Her work has appeared in 110 Stories: New York Writes After September 11, Charlie Chan Is Dead, the Asian Pacific American Review, and the Denver Quarterly, among other anthologies and journals.

Born in Queens, New York, and raised in Queens and on Long Island, Lieu received her BA from Yale College and her MFA from Warren Wilson College. She lived for twelve years in Northern New Mexico, where she worked as an award-winning journalist before turning to fiction and creative nonfiction. She has taught in Goddard College’s MFA in Creative Writing Program, and at New York University and the New School. She is the 2009-2010 visiting writer in the MFA Program at Queens College.