Juliana Feliciano Reyes

About

Hi, I'm a writer, editor, and journalist living between Philadelphia and Metro Manila. I write a newsletter called Other Kinds of Intimacy. I also teach writing to students of all ages.I worked as a reporter in Philadelphia for more than a decade, most recently as an investigative reporter at the Philadelphia Inquirer focused on workers' rights.I got my MFA in creative writing at Randolph College. I was a Lambda Literary Writers Retreat for Emerging LGBTQ Voices fellow and a Leeway Foundation Art & Change grantee, and I'm currently a Silliman University National Writers Workshop fellow.My longform journalism has been featured on Longform.org, The Sunday Long Read, and the Ann Friedman Weekly. I've won awards from the National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association, the Asian American Journalists Association, the Pennsylvania NewsMedia Association, the Pen & Pencil's Philadelphia News Awards, and others.In Philly, I perform with URIOL, a Korean drumming group, and organize a Filipino potluck. I'm an advisor to FORTUNE, a print collective assembled by and for queer and trans Asian publics. I served on the board of the Asian American Journalists Association, in both local and national positions, for a decade. I'm also a prolific letter writer.

Investigative Reporting

• Thousands of Pa. workers are owed money from wage theft cases but the U.S. Labor Dept. says it can’t find them. So we did. [Philadelphia Inquirer]
• 12 Philadelphia judges didn’t follow city laws on their rental properties [Philadelphia Inquirer]
• When SEPTA Sued Me [Philadelphia Inquirer]
• Hundreds of Philly’s elected leaders didn’t vote last year, and others don’t live where they say they do [Philadelphia Inquirer]
• After a Temple librarian died, coworkers said the sick-leave policy ‘ran her into the ground’ [Philadelphia Inquirer]

Longform Features

• The Perks Are Great. Just Don’t Ask Us What We Do. [WIRED]
• The Instagram king of women's empowerment [Washington Post]

Culture Reporting

• A tiny Filipino chili pepper takes root in Philadelphia [Philadelphia Inquirer]
• Name, age, and Local 19: Why Philly men list their unions on Tinder [Philadelphia Inquirer]
• These two guys prove that you are doing Tinder all wrong [Technical.ly]

Literary ish

• Earliest Spring [Healing Verse Poetry Line]
• What Are You Gonna Sing? [Quarter Notes magazine] with Bea Troxel
• A Night's Work: a review of Mati Diop's Atlantics [BlackStar Film Festival's Seen]
• manila phone [bedfellows magazine]

Dear Ones

Yowei Shaw, host of Proxy the podcast at FORTUNE's Lunar New Year party

Darren White of Dickerson & White

URIOL

Omar Buenaventura and Nicky Uy (Bahay215) and Maria Dumlao

Credits

Headshots by Kriston Jae Bethel (thanks to AAJA Philly); background image of Siargao, Philippines, by Aidan Un; website design by Austin Takashi Jefferson