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Grace Yee Grace Yee i(A90948 works by)
Born: Established: Hong Kong,
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China,
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East Asia, South and East Asia, Asia, ;
Gender: Female
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1 3 y separately published work icon Chinese Fish Grace Yee , Artarmon : Giramondo Publishing , 2023 26023166 2023 single work novel

'A family saga narrated in multiple voices and laced with archival fragments and scholarly interjections, Chinese Fish offers an intimate glimpse into the lives of women and girls in a community that has historically been characterised as both a ‘yellow peril’ menace and an exotic ‘model minority’.'(Publication summary)
1 I Have Heard i "that the price of a pound of gold has gone grey over the last couple of months", Grace Yee , 2021 single work poetry
— Appears in: Groundswell: The Overland Judith Wright Poetry Prize for New and Emerging Artists 2021; (p. 214-215)
1 Playful Bodily Harm i "Outbreak of Larrikinism at the Chinese Quarter. At seven o'clock in the", Grace Yee , 2021 single work poetry
— Appears in: Rabbit , no. 33 2021; (p. 30-31)
1 Tabulations (A Nine Year) i "First thing, The Morning News: Virus Travel Expedited by Cool", Grace Yee , 2021 single work poetry
— Appears in: Island , no. 163 2021; (p. 10) Best of Australian Poems 2022 2022; (p. 179)
1 Alluvial Mining Grace Yee , 2021 single work poetry
— Appears in: Any Saturday, 2021, Running Westward 2021;
1 Herd Immunity i "this story of intertwining social graces takes place at ground", Grace Yee , 2021 single work poetry
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , August no. 102 2021;
1 A Special Starch i "for the sake of social peace grandfather father uncle all lived in the", Grace Yee , 2021 single work poetry
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , August no. 102 2021;
1 With Two Black Dates for Sweetness i "et’s languish on little bourke street: the longest continuous", Grace Yee , 2021 single work poetry
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , August no. 102 2021;
1 Best-Quality-Vegetables i "my name is bound feet lily flower", Grace Yee , 2021 single work poetry
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , August no. 102 2021;
1 Eligible Chinese Women Were a Rarity i "The store’s main function was importing and Chinese medicine,", Grace Yee , 2021 single work poetry
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , August no. 102 2021;
1 Famine Relief i "(Heffernan Lane). Look at us: well-dressed and opulently fed, a", Grace Yee , 2021 single work poetry
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , August no. 102 2021;
1 A Special Starch : Poems by Grace Yee Grace Yee , 2021 selected work poetry
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , August no. 102 2021;

'‘A Special Starch’ is an excerpt from a collection that engages with stories told by – and about – early settler Chinese Australians and their descendants, with a particular focus on those who settled in Melbourne and regional Victoria. The poems were written with the assistance of a Creative Fellowship at the State Library Victoria, 2019-21.' (Introduction)
1 Longest Imperial Dragon i "in the heritage reading room the eyes are dry, and the throat.", Grace Yee , 2021 single work poetry
— Appears in: Amberflora , January no. 10 2021; Groundswell: The Overland Judith Wright Poetry Prize for New and Emerging Artists 2021; (p. 215-217)
1 Seek Orchards, Shelter i "they sailed into some savage country in 1926 on the ss victoria, incarcerated by a map of ideal drawings, dim in the hold", Grace Yee , 2020 single work poetry
— Appears in: Overland , Summer no. 241 2020; (p. 60-61)
1 For the Chinese Merchants of Melbourne i "circulate this amongst your friends critical of the local culture", Grace Yee , 2020 single work poetry
— Appears in: Westerly , vol. 65 no. 2 2020; (p. 14-15) Best of Australian Poems 2021 2021; (p. 86)
1 Chinny Chin Chin i "when the black curtain drops in a back room at the airport", Grace Yee , 2020 single work poetry
— Appears in: Overland , Autumn no. 238 2020; (p. 61) Groundswell: The Overland Judith Wright Poetry Prize for New and Emerging Artists 2021; (p. 212-213)
1 Dear Liza. You Are Thursday. Grace Yee , 2020 single work short story
— Appears in: Overland [Online] , May 2020;
1 My Father Was Not a Gardener i "but he was a handsome widespreading form descended from a long-lived drought-resistant species.", Grace Yee , 2020 single work poetry
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , May no. 96 2020;
1 Typhoon i "grandfather: with your blue eyes", Grace Yee , 2020 single work poetry
— Appears in: Rabbit , no. 29 2020; (p. 88-89)
1 For the Good Husband Grace Yee , 2019 single work poetry
— Appears in: Poetry New Zealand Yearbook 2019; (p. 201)
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