https://graceshuyiliew.com Grace Shuyi Liew Fri, 28 Oct 2022 23:36:26 +0000 https://graceshuyiliew.com en https://graceshuyiliew.com/About Fri, 28 Oct 2022 23:36:26 +0000 Grace Shuyi Liew https://graceshuyiliew.com/About ︎&nbsp; ︎&nbsp;︎<img width="731" height="1024" width_o="731" height_o="1024" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/dac4dfb07c444c99fb290f9b00179f196275360efd9ce579f38acaee8f59e5d9/WhatsApp-Image-2026-01-14-at-4.07.19-PM.jpeg" data-mid="243252205" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/731/i/dac4dfb07c444c99fb290f9b00179f196275360efd9ce579f38acaee8f59e5d9/WhatsApp-Image-2026-01-14-at-4.07.19-PM.jpeg" /> Grace Shuyi Liew (she/they) is a bisexual writer &amp; poet.&nbsp; Born &amp; raised in Malaysia, Grace writes of migration, sexuality, and transnational lineages. Her debut novel, a literary thriller set in a fictional gambling city in Malaysia with a queer love story at its heart, is forthcoming with Riverhead. Grace has been awarded a Center for Fiction Fellowship, Tin House writer-in-residence, MacDowell Fellowship, the Lucille Clifton Poetry Fellowship from Squaw Valley Writers, Aesthetica Magazine Creative Writing Award (Finalist 2022), Associate Artist at the Atlantic Center for the Arts with US Poet Laureate Joy Harjo, Aspen Summer Words scholarship, resident writer at Can Serrat in Barcelona, Watering Hole Fellowship, Ahsahta Press Chapbook Prize, and many others. Grace has written a poetry collection,&nbsp;Careen (Noemi Press, 2019), named Electric Literature’s “14 Unmissable Poetry Books of 2019,” Bustle’s&nbsp;“26 New Poetry Collections By LGBTQIA+ Writers To Look Out For In 2019,” Entropy Magazine’s “Best Poetry Books of 2019,” Bookriot’s&nbsp;“Queer Poetry Collections to Read During National Poetry Month,”&nbsp;and more. She has been anthologized in 2019 Best of the Net. Grace lives in Brooklyn, New York. They studied philosophy and now teaches various workshops, serves&nbsp;The Trevor Project as a crisis counselor, and sometimes hosts a local queer collective. To reach Grace, go to Contact.&nbsp; FICTION + NONFICTION&nbsp;Brooklyn Bridge, Lascaux Review (winner of 2023 Lascaux Prize for short fiction) Evidence, Guernica Sicko, Yalobusha Review (runner-up for the Barry Hannah Prize, selected by Deesha Philyaw) Splinter, Wigleaf (nominated for the Pushcart Prize) Make Yourself Into A House, Electric Literature (selected by Min Jin Lee, winner of the 2022 Stella Kupferberg Memorial Short Story Prize) Old Bones, Kenyon ReviewHow Grief Works,&nbsp;The Offing&nbsp; Halfway, Berlin, an essay,&nbsp;alice blue review CRITICISMS Chloe Garcia Roberts’ The Reveal,&nbsp;Kenyon Review Kim Yideum’s Blood Sisters, Waxwing The Holes and Cyborgs in Sun Yung Shin’s Unbearable Splendor, Waxwing Nests and Strangers: On Asian American Women Poets, Waxwing Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha’s Bodymap,&nbsp;Fanzine Ginger Ko’s Motherlover,&nbsp;Fanzine An Interview with Caroline Crew,&nbsp;Fanzine POETRYHappen, The Margins, Asian America Writers Workshop&nbsp;The Use of Lyricism, Kenyon Review Film Camera, Honey LiteraryPublics, Juked Eventually Every Color Careens into Its Own Lack, Dreginald In A Simplified Language, Tell Me About The Weight Of Sounds, Banango Street&nbsp; What Do You Want To Play?, TYPO&nbsp; PRESS COVERAGE Careening: An Interview by Vi Khi Nao, LA Review of Books An Interview, Ploughshares BlogOur Worries: A #MeToo Narrative, American Book ReviewA Podcast Convo with Muriel Leung, Blood-jet Writing HourReview and Q&amp;A: Careen, Host Publications The Ruthless Otherworld of Grace Shuyi Liew, Anomaly Lit How to Run Out of Our Own Flesh, a review,&nbsp;Asterix Journal