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Grace Shuyi Liew

Grace Shuyi Liew

Grace Shuyi Liew grew up in Malaysia, a postcolonial peninsula firing with desire. From there she learned rural escapism, sea breeze, and migration. She is the author of the chapbooks Book of Interludes (Anomalous Press, 2016) and Prop (Ahsahta Press, 2016). She is a Watering Hole Fellow, and her 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, and others. She holds a BA in philosophy and MFA in creative writing. Careen, her first full-length collection of poetry, will be published in April 2019.

Proof Casts a Shadow

Two Poems

By Grace Shuyi Liew

The Use of Lyricism This morning, the dim skies are halting the passage of time. An error in the weather. I am in two places, torn between the clouds outside […]