Kenji C. Liu (劉謙司) is a painter, muralist, book designer, and poet based in unceded Tongva land, Los Ángeles.

Most recently he collaborated with Mitsuru Grill and Sushi to paint a temporary mural on its storefront celebrating the owner’s family. His giclee fine art prints of Little Tokyo neighborhood landmarks such as Suehiro on First St and the old Nishi Hongwanji Temple are available exclusively at Nellita’s Craft.

He is the author of Monsters I Have Been (Alice James Books 2019), finalist for the 2020 California and Maine Book Awards for poetry, and Map of an Onion, national winner of the 2015 Hillary Gravendyk Poetry Prize. His writing can be found in multiple literary journals, several anthologies, and two chapbooks, Craters: A Field Guide (2017) and You Left Without Your Shoes (2009). He is an alumnus of Kundiman, the Djerassi Resident Artist Program, and the Community of Writers.