Grace Yee Reading & Conversation

Grace Yee is the author of Chinese Fish (Giramondo, Australia; Akoya, UK), which won the Victorian Prize for Literature and the Victorian Premier's Award for Poetry in Australia, and the Mary and Peter Biggs Award for Poetry at the Ockham New Zealand Book Awards. Her work has been widely published, including in The Shanghai Literary Review, The Guardian, Poetry New Zealand Yearbook, Evening Odesa (Ukraine), Women's Museum of California, HEAT and Best of Australian Poems, and is forthcoming in Wasafiri. Her second collection Joss: A History (Giramondo) was released in 2025 and longlisted for the Margaret & Colin Roderick Literary Award and the Ockham NZ Book Award for Poetry. She was a Creative Fellow at the State Library Victoria (2019-21) and has taught in the creative writing programs at the University of Melbourne and Deakin University. She was born in British Hong Kong, grew up in Aotearoa New Zealand, and now lives in Melbourne, Australia.