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Julia Luna is a poet and sound artist living in Brooklyn. They hold an MFA in Poetry from Brooklyn College, where they currently teach composition and creative writing. Their poetry, research, and sound work have been published in carte blanche, DIALOGIST, bethh, eratio, The Believer, #Ranger Magazine, and elsewhere. Their recent performance work includes the Greetings Reading Series at Unnameable Books and Sonic Experiment II at the Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery. They have been awarded residencies at PAS Berlin and Untitled Tbilisi.

Julia has studied under Alex Dimitrov, Lynn Xu, Mónica de la Torre, LaTasha Diggs, Anselm Berrigan, Tan Lin, and Ben Lerner.

Their work includes poetry, performance, and video, with a focus on sound and the voice. They are interested in the visual reproduction of sound and questioning what gets categorized as “noise.” Their practice takes an anti-definitional approach to listening, in favor of the belief that “to live is to noise.” This fall, at PAS Berlin, they will continue developing work that brings text into speech through a mix of live performance, recording, and vocal experimentation.

Through their work with PEN America’s Prison and Justice Writing Program and Prison Banned Books Week, Julia has researched censorship and book ban practices in prisons. This research informs a new project, Opacity Acts. At Untitled Tbilisi, they will be investigating how language forms under surveillance and restriction in the wake of the USA Patriot Act.

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