Meet Jasmine Liu

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by Grantmakers in the Arts

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Jasmine Liu is a writer based in New York City, hailing from the San Francisco Bay Area.

She recently graduated from Stanford University, where she studied anthropology and mathematics. While there, she completed a 120-page honors thesis entitled “Deranging the Senses through Space and Time: Classical Music Festivals in the Twenty-First Century.”

Currently, she is a staff writer at Hyperallergic, where she covers developments in the contemporary art world. On the side, she writes reviews of new releases in fiction. Her essays span topics of coming-of-age, solitude, irony, and whether Asian American identity is ultimately vacuous. She recently began a part-time master’s program in Language, Literature, and Theory at Hunter College.