Biological Deviant

Jie Venus Cohen

Jie V. Cohen is a mixed, intersex writer and author of poetry chapbook VENUS LIMBS ('25, Thirty West Publishing). They are a 2026 Tin House/MWC Scholar, a 2025 LAMBDA Literary fellow, and have received fellowships from Kenyon Review, Mount Holyoke College, and others. They were shortlisted for the 2026 DISQUIET Prize. Their work has been recognized in The Tulane Review, DIAGRAM, The Offing, The Minnesota Review, Hayden's Ferry Review, Strange Horizons, The Ex-Puritan, Singapore Unbound, POETS.org, and others. Their poem THE FUTURE received a Best of the Net award in 2023. They are the first place winner of the 2024 Singapore Poetry Prize and second place winner of the 2025 Singapore Poetry Prize. Their poem "Gaia Sings the Body Electric" was nominated for the Best New Poetry prize in 2025. Their poem "The Argument I" was nominated for a Pushcart Prize in 2025. They read poetry for Electric Literature and are the Co-Editor of Folios for ANMLY Literature.

Books & Chapbooks

Selected Publications

Prizes/Fellowships&etc

  • Finalist for Seventh Wave EIC of Community Anthology for "On Independence", 2026

  • Shortlisted for the DISQUIET Prize in Poetry, 2026

  • Tin House Workshop Scholar, 2026

  • The Argument I, nominated for a Pushcart Prize, 2025, by Thirty West Publishing

  • Best New Poets Nomination by Radon Journal for Gaia Sings the Body Electric, 2025

  • Singapore Unbound: SUSPECT 11th Singapore Poetry Contest 2nd Place Winner, selected by Mandy Moe Pwint Tu, 2025

  • LAMBDA Literary Poetry Fellow, 2025

  • Longlisted for the DISQUIET Prize in Poetry, 2025

  • Singapore Unbound: SUSPECT 10th Singapore Poetry Contest Winner, selected by Jeddie Sophronius

  • Joseph McGrath Bottkol Fellowship for Creative Writing, 2023

  • Naomi Kitay Fellowship for Creative Prose Writing, 2023

  • Best of the Net Poetry Winner, 2023, selected by Jane Wong

  • Kenyon Review Winter Writing Workshop, Poetry, 2022

  • Millicent Allen Prize for Lyric Poetry, 2022

  • Naomi Kitay Fellowship for Creative Prose Writing, 2022

  • Critical Language Scholarship for Mandarin Chinese study, 2022

  • Anne Singer ‘69 Award for Poetry, 2022

  • Gertrude Claytor Award for Best Poem, Academy of American Poets, 2022

  • Frances Perkins Scholarship, Mount Holyoke College, 2020-2023