JONAH WU

WRITER / FILM CRITIC / FILMMAKER

Crafting uncanny dreams & brilliant nightmares.

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jonah wu is a queer + transmasculine writer currently residing in New York, NY. Their work explores their Chinese American upbringing and the intersection between gender, mental illness, trauma, dreams, memory, and family history. Their writing has been published in Longleaf Review, beestung, Jellyfish Review, The Seventh Wave Magazine, Bright Wall/Dark Room, and Electric Literature. Currently, jonah is Assistant Fiction Editor at ANMLY, and Founding Editor-in-Chief of eggplant tears, an online journal for transmasculine work. They also write a newsletter called RABBLEROUSE, which takes a critical look at media and seeks to define a new praxis for filmmaking.jonah was a 2022 Periplus Fellow and a 2022 Digital Resident at The Seventh Wave. They are a three-time Pushcart nominee for "A BRIEF HISTORY OF HAIR," "Sugarloaf," and "There Is No Easy Way Towards Earth." They won Tenebrous Press's Brave New Weird: The Best New Weird Horror of 2022 award for the short story, "There Is No Easy Way Towards Earth."They have 3 years of experience in entertainment marketing, where they primarily worked in research and audience analytics. Their clients have included HBO Max, Lionsgate, Disney, Amazon Prime Video, and Netflix, and Warner Bros., for whom they created social strategy and digital content that maximized audience engagement.jonah is the founder of Anti-Racist Movie Club, an organization dedicated to anti-racist education through film, and Asian Defense Fund, a mutual aid group providing free self-defense kits to vulnerable members of the Asian community.In their spare time, jonah enjoys baking, bookbinding, and picking up various crafts only to abandon them in 2 weeks’ time. Come say hi on Twitter or Instagram!

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