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 2025 LAMBDA Literary fellow, and have received fellowships from Kenyon Review, Mount Holyoke College, and others. They were longlisted for the 2024 DISQUIET Prize. Their work has been recognized in 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.
Selected Publications
Prizes/Fellowships&etc
Best New Poets Nomination by Radon Journal for Gaia Sings the Body Electric, 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