Grace Shuyi Liew (she/they) is a queer writer & poet. Born & raised in Malaysia, a former British colony, Grace writes of migration, sexuality, and transnational lineages. She is currently revising her first novel, a queer thriller set in a fictional gambling city in Malaysia.
Grace has been awarded a Center for Fiction Fellowship, Tin House writer-in-residence, MacDowell Fellowship, the Lucille Clifton Poetry Fellowship from the Community of 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, Careen (Noemi Press, 2019), named Electric Literature's "14 Unmissable Poetry Books of 2019," Bustle's "26 New Poetry Collections By LGBTQIA+ Writers To Look Out For In 2019," Entropy Magazine's "Best Poetry Books of 2019," Bookriot's "Queer Poetry Collections to Read During National Poetry Month," and more. She has been anthologized in 2019 Best of the Net.
Grace lives in Brooklyn, New York, with their partner, dog, and cat. They studied philosophy and now teaches various workshops, serves The Trevor Project as a crisis counselor, and sometimes hosts a local queer collective.