Lydia T. Liu is a diasporic poet and multidisciplinary researcher. Her first chapbook The problem of deer is forthcoming from Finishing Line Press in 2025, and was selected as a finalist in the 2022 Poetry Society of America Chapbook contest. Her work has appeared in Berkeley Poetry Review, The Columbia Review, and Poetry Northwest. She is an alum of the Community of Writers Poetry workshop and the Breadloaf Environmental Writers’ conference. She grew up in Singapore and teaches at Princeton University. Her academic website is at lydiatliu.com.