Valerie Hsiung is a poet who writes novels, an essayist who writes poetry, and an artist who tends rituals of language, sound, and performance. Her work dissolves boundaries between genres and art forms, drawing on diasporic, ecological, abolitionist, and metaphysical inquiry. She is the author of eight full-length books, including The pedestrian (Nightboat Books, forthcoming), The Naif (Ugly Duckling Presse), The only name we can call it now is not its only name (Counterpath), featured in BOMB and The Poetry Project Newsletter, To love an artist (Essay Press), featured in Full Stop and Cleveland Review of Books, and outside voices, please (CSU). Her writing has appeared in Annulet, BathHouse Journal, The Georgia Review, mercury firs, The Nation, Paperbag, Verse and her work has been presented internationally at Double Change (Paris), Hyle (Athens), and the Jaipur Literature Festival. Recipient of support from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, PEN America, and Lighthouse Works, she teaches at the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at Naropa University. Born to Chinese-Taiwanese immigrants in Cincinnati, Ohio, she now lives in the mountains of Colorado.