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Julia Luna (she/they) is an MFA candidate in Creative Writing, Poetry at Brooklyn College, where she also teaches as Adjunct Faculty in the English Department. Her poetry has appeared in Eratio, Quarto Magazine, and elsewhere. She has studied under Alex Dimitrov, Lynn Xu, Mónica de la Torre, LaTasha Diggs, Anselm Berrigan, Tan Lin, and Ben Lerner.

Her editorial work with PEN America’s Prison and Justice Writing Program is especially meaningful to her; there, she edits and designs anthologies by incarcerated writers, supporting voices that persist despite censorship and restriction. She was formerly Editor in Chief of Continents, Columbia University’s undergraduate human rights magazine, and has also worked with the Columbia Undergraduate Law Review and the Prison Policy Initiative.

Juliana studied at Columbia University and has presented her research at the Modern Language Association, speaking on censorship and banned literature in prisons, schools, and colleges.

With a background in both creative writing and human rights, her work spans poetry, advocacy, and experimental art practices. Her poetry is concerned with sound and the visual reproduction of it. 

Born and raised in California, she now lives and works in New York City.