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Alicia Lai

Alicia Lai is the founder of the Postscript Journal, as well as the recipient of Acclivity’s Laurel Awards and first-place winner of the Penn State International Writing Contest. Publications include National Poetry Quarterly, Acclivity, and Adroit Journal. She currently attends State College Area High School in Pennsylvania.

Patricia Grodd Poetry Prize

Fall 2013

Saung

By Alicia Lai

Runner-Up 2013 Patricia Grodd Poetry Prize for Young Writers   The queer thing is in the way you do not know to slip sweetly into another chambered shell; then my […]

Past Recipients of the Patricia Grodd Poetry Prize for Young Writers

Saung

By Alicia Lai

2013 Runner-up The queer thing is in the way you do not know to slip sweetly into another chambered shell; then my mother’s voice dovetails, its ribs wide in a […]