J. Yuru Zhou / 周玉茹 is rooting in San Francisco. She’s served as the creative editor of Kernel Magazine (2,3,4), and her poems and essays have been exhibited in shows at the Asian Art Museum, Gray Area and Southern Exposure; performed at Litquake (Yerba Buena Gardens, Noisebridge), Berkeley Poetry Festival (Berkeley Ballet Theatre), the Pride Poets Hotline (ONE Gallery, Los Angeles Public Library); published by Inverse Magazine and the Los Angeles Times; forthcoming in The Ecopoetry Anthology and The Seventh Wave.

Reaching toward a DIY MFA, her practice has been supported by Kearny Street Workshop, Community of Writers, the Mendocino Coast Writers’ Conference, Kundiman, the Gunn Center for the Study of Science Fiction, the School for Poetic Computation, the Audubon Society, the Writers’ Grotto, ToftH.org, and Friends With Benefits.

She enjoys theorizing at the club, ambling in-and-out of the panopticon, and reveling in summery autumns in California. A girlblogger by necessity since 2010, she has been writing within a hydra of Twitter and Tumblr accounts in an on-going, unfurling, online autobiography. Find her: mooncasted.work & flowersandfields.org.