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.
Portrait by Stanley Fang
