Valerie Hsiung is a poet, writer, performer, and the author of four full-length poetry and hybrid writing collections: YOU & ME FOREVER (Action Books, 2020), outside voices, please (CSU, 2021), hummingbird et partygirl (Essay Press, 2021), and e f g (Action, 2016). Her work can be found in or is forthcoming from places such as The Nation, Chicago Review, PEN America,The Rumpus, jubilat, Denver Quarterly, and beyond. She has performed at Treefort Music Festival, DC Arts Center, The Poetry Project, Poetic Research Bureau, Shapeshifter Lab, and The Silent Barn. Born in the Year of the Earth Snake and Tiananmen Square Protests and raised by Chinese-Taiwanese immigrants in Cincinnati, Ohio, she now lives in Brooklyn, New York. valeriehsiung.com