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2022 Update

November 3rd, 2022 · No Comments

Adding a brief update here – much has happened since the days I posted on this blog regularly. I hope to return to this website soon with more to share.

BIO

Julie Jeanell Leung received her MFA in creative nonfiction from the Rainier Writing Workshop at Pacific Lutheran University. Her work has appeared in a number of publications, including Bellingham Review, Blue Lyra Review, Grist: A Journal of the Literary Arts, the museum of americana: a literary review, and Salish Magazine. Her essays have received recognition including Finalist for Best of the Net, First Prize in the ProForma contest, and the Living Earth Nonfiction Prize. She has served as an intern with Sundress Academy for the Arts. A beach naturalist and citizen scientist, Julie lives on Bainbridge Island where she monitors sea stars on the rocky shores. 

PUBLICATIONS

“The Kingdom of Plastics,” Salish Magazine, Spring 2020

“Haunted Shores,” Community College Humanities Review, Volume 2, Issue 2, 2018

Book Review of Leaving Orbit, the museum of americana, Volume 10, 2016

“Skeletogenesis,” Grist: A Journal of The Literary Arts, Issue 9, 2016 

“Life on Other Planets,” Talking Writing, December 2015

“Reclamation,” Blue Lyra Review, Volume 2, 2015 

“Red,” the Brevity blog, December 21, 2014

“Selkie,” Rose Red Review, Issue No. 9, Summer 2014 

“Barnacle Envy,” Festival Writer, August 2014 

“Moon Snails,” Bellingham Review, Volume 33, Spring 2010 

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“Moon Snails” published in the Bellingham Review

November 1st, 2010 · No Comments

The current issue of the Bellingham Review includes “Moon Snails”, a creative nonfiction piece I wrote describing the spirals of moon snails,  my brother,  my family, my body and the sea.  This week I am heading to the  NonfictionNow conference at the University of Iowa where I will appear on a panel put together by Bellingham Review Editor Brenda Miller.  It is an honor, and I am grateful for the opportunity.  Many thanks to Brenda,  the Bellingham Review, and my family.

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The photo on my iPhone: blood star

December 29th, 2009 · No Comments

this is the image I keep on my iPhone – matches nicely with my orange case!

Blood star, Henricia leviuscula

found on Bainbridge Island,  Washington state , Salish Sea

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a new year

December 29th, 2009 · No Comments

Getting ready for a new year…and new blog posts…!  Happy 2010 to everyone!

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Guinea Pig TV: Special Photography Episode

April 8th, 2008 · 2 Comments

It’s been busy here – and even the pets have been busy, creating a new episode of Guinea Pig TV, this one inspired by Ted’s passion for photography. Chatterboy is nearing retirement, so Truffles came to live with us soon after her birth on Christmas Eve. This new video includes three cavies: Chatterboy, Truffles and Truffles mother, Pearl, in a guest-star cameo role. Abigail did the writing and camera work for this episode.

Thanks to Ted Leung, Chase Jarvis and Strobist.com for inspiration…
oh yeah, and the Strobist commercial 2.0 too…

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