Lydia T. Liu


Disciplines: Literature – poetry
Disciplines: Literature – poetry
Based in Princeton, NJ
Residencies: 2025
Portrait by: Joanna Eldredge Morrissey

Lydia T. Liu is a diasporic poet and performance artist. Her poetry chapbook The problem of deer, a finalist for the Poetry Society of America Chapbook Fellowship, is available from Finishing Line Press. Her recent work appears in Cimarron Review and Poetry Northwest. Her interdisciplinary performance, VOICES, of improvised poetry, music, and translation, was presented at Microscope Gallery (NYC) in collaboration with composer Brandon Woo Snyder and translator Jennifer Shyue.

While at MacDowell, Liu wrote new poems, revised her full-length poetry manuscript, and collaborated with composer Brandon Woo Snyder on an album of improvised poetry and music, as well as an essay on performance practice, in two voices.

Studios

Heyward

Lydia T. Liu worked in the Heyward studio.

The Lodge Annex, a wing on the west side of what was then the men’s dormitory (The Lodge), was completed in 1926. Initially intended as an apartment for a caretaker, the space was soon repurposed as a live-in studio for writers. In recognition of a major endowment gift from the…

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