Grace Shuyi LiewCAREEN (Noemi Press, 2019) is Grace Shuyi Liew's debut collection of poetry. Her work has appeared in West Branch, Black Warrior Review, Kenyon Review, cream city review, PANK, Twelfth House, and elsewhere. She is a Watering Hole fellow, andher other honors include the Lucille Clifton Poetry Fellowship from Squaw Valley Community of Writers, Aspen Summer Words scholarship, resident writer at Can Serrat in Barcelona, resident at Agora Affect, and others. Grace is a Contributing Editor for Waxwing. Born and raised in Malaysia, a former colony of The British Empire, Grace thinks closely of migration, loss, sexuality, violence, and nation states. The Mother figure, the Mother tongue, and the Mother land converge in her work, alongside theories about split consciousnesses and their affect. Currently, she lives in New York, where she runs a burgeoning qpoc arts collective, and works on a novel. Read More Read Less