Valerie Hsiung is a poet, writer, performer, and the author of the poetry collections YOU & ME FOREVER(Action Books, 2020), outside voices, please (CSU, 2021), and e f g (Action, 2016). Her poems and hybrid, sound-based texts can be found in or are forthcoming from places such as The Nation, The Believer, jubilat, Chicago Review, Black Sun Lit, The Rumpus, Bayou Magazine, Poetry Northwest, Denver Quarterly, American Letters & Commentary, Pinwheel, and beyond. She has performed at Treefort Music Festival, DC Arts Center, Common Area Maintenance, Casa Libre en la Solana, Shapeshifter Lab, and The Silent Barn. Born and raised by Chinese-Taiwanese immigrants in southern Ohio, she now lives in Brooklyn and Hudson.