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It’s almost here! My second collection, Be Water, is coming out with Anvil Press this summer.

Or, if you just need more poetry in your life… Get my debut collection, a Lambda Literary Award finalist.

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"We can’t know what our future holds once we’ve made radical decisions to leave familiar homes and family, but Grace brings us found family, queer joy, and a Nils Frahm record. The poems in Be Water are generous and openhearted, and resist the notion that certainty is the only way to bring comfort and security. The world seems to move at a lightning-fast pace, but spending time with Grace’s poetry brought the feeling of a warm sun on a chilly winter day, a desire to open up my arms to a downpour." — Manahil Bandukwala, author of Heliotropia

“Grace’s poems flow through memories and family prohibitions like water around rocks in a stream, sometimes rippling with absence, sometimes travelling to places of refuge and hard-won acceptance. Grace weaves a tapestry that is parts wry, parts sardonic while remaining dedicatedly reflective, intertwining human nature with the larger cosmos, listening to the glittering sigh of the earth all around us. Wrestling with the pervasive legacy of colonization and racism, yet the wish to embody peace, protest and dignity persists in these poems. Be Water delights in subversion, and subverts through delight in queer joy. — Lydia Kwa. author of from time to new