felix lecocq

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Felix Lecocq is a queer Vietnamese American writer living in the Midwest. He was a Tin House Reading Fellow from 2023 to 2024 and has received scholarships from the Sewanee and Bread Loaf Writers’ Conferences. His work has been published in Joyland, Black Warrior Review, Chicago Reader, and elsewhere. Felix has taught writing workshops with Sundress Academy for the Arts, the Chicago Asian Writers Workshop, and the University of Wisconsin–Madison, where he is currently an MFA candidate in Fiction.



selected work

Heart Condition (poem)
Chicago Reader, 2024

Out of Joint (essay)
Black Warrior Review, 2023

A Blue Flash of Light (video game)
ANMLY, 2023

Modern Science (fiction)
Joyland Magazine, 2023




some classes felix has taught

Decolonizing the Diagram
experimental poetry workshop
February 2024
with Sundress Academy for the Arts

Text Image Movement
generative poetry workshop
July & August 2023
with the Chicago Asian Writers Workshop

game design for poets
May 2023 + ongoing
for the Chicago Abortion Fund & Gaza Funds
awards/fellowships/etc

bread loaf scholarship in fiction 2025
tennessee williams scholarship at sewanee 2025
joanna garfield award in nonfiction creative writing 2025
university of wisconsin-madison mfa in fiction 2024-2026
tin house workshop reading fellowship 2023-2024
sundress academy for the arts summer residency 2023
tin house summer workshop 2022
les river fellowship for young novelists 2020
ron offen poetry prize 2019
sliced bread summer poetry contest 2018