🚍✍Announcing our 2026 Writer by Bus, Chanlee Luu!
Chanlee received a bus pass at our annual celebratory kickoff event at the Third Street Transit Station in downtown Roanoke. For two months, Chanlee will ride the bus around Roanoke Valley and develop an original work for chapbook publication. We’re so excited to see Chanlee’s literary creativity come to life through this project!
🌟ABOUT CHANLEE LUU
Chanlee Luu is a Vietnamese-Chinese American writer. She received her MFA in creative writing from Hollins University, BS in chemical engineering and minor in Global Sustainability from UVA, where she competed in poetry slams. She writes about identity, pop culture, science, politics, and everything in between. She is the winner of the 2024 Jean Feldman Poetry Award from the Washington Writer’s Publishing House, which published her debut collection, The Machine Autocorrects Code to I. One of her poems was on display at “50 Years of HOPE and HA-HAs,” a Vietnamese American art exhibition that celebrates the expansiveness of the diaspora, rooted in the DMV. Her work also appears in Capital Queer: A Pride Celebration chapbook and the forthcoming America’s Future anthology, both from WWPH.
Chanlee’s Website
🚍ABOUT ART BY BUS 🎨
The Art by Bus program showcases how our communities and citizens are connected through public transportation.
A partnership between RIDE Solutions, Valley Metro, Roanoke Arts Commission and the Bus Riders of Roanoke Advocacy Group (BRRAG), Art by Bus brings attention to the ways that transit improves quality of life in the neighborhoods it serves. Learn more about the program at https://itl.ink/artbybus.
