Grace Yee Author

Grace Yee is an acclaimed poet who was born in British Hong Kong, grew up in Aotearoa New Zealand and now lives in Melbourne, on Wurundjeri land. She has been awarded the Patricia Hackett Prize, the Peter Steele Poetry Award and a Creative Fellowship at the State Library Victoria. Her debut collection Chinese Fish won the 2024 Victorian Prize for Literature and the Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for Poetry in Australia, and the Mary and Peter Biggs Award for Poetry at the Ockham New Zealand Book Awards. Her second collection, Joss: A History, was longlisted in 2026 for the Ockham New Zealand Book Award for Poetry.