Leland Cheuk

Leland Cheuk has been awarded fellowships and artist residencies at the MacDowell Colony, I-Park Foundation, and Brush Creek Foundation for the Arts. Cheuk's work has appeared or is forthcoming in publications such as The Rumpus, Los Angeles Review of Books, Harvard Review, Valparaiso Fiction Review, and Tahoma Literary Review. The Misadventures of Sulliver Pong was named a finalist for the James Jones First Novel Fellowship as well as a semi-finalist for the Big Moose Prize from Black Lawrence Press. His short fiction has been a finalist for the Salamander Fiction Prize (judged by Edith Pearlman) and the national Washington Square Review fiction contest (judged by Darin Strauss). He has an MFA in Creative Writing from Lesley University. He lives in Brooklyn and is always at work on a novel and a collection of stories.