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Grace Yee is a poet and writer living in Melbourne, Australia, on Wurundjeri land. Her work has been widely published and anthologised across Australia and internationally, and 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 (Giramondo Publishing) began as part of a PhD thesis on settler Chinese women's storytelling in Aotearoa New Zealand (University of Melbourne, 2016). In 2024, it was awarded the Victorian Premier's Literary Award for Poetry and the Victorian Prize for Literature in Australia; and the Mary & Peter Biggs Poetry Award in the Ockham New Zealand Book Awards. Chinese Fish will be published by Akoya (UK) in 20 ...more

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	Chinese Fish 4.26 avg rating — 184 ratings — published 2023 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	Status Anxiety (Griffith Review, #85) by Carody Culver (Editor), Shahar Hameiri (Contributor), Diana Reid (Contributor) 3.86 avg rating — 7 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Summer 2024 (Meanjin, #83.4) by Esther Anatolitis (Editor), Joe Geia (Contributor), Nicholas Pickard (Contributor) 3.67 avg rating — 3 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“I drinking
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milk now
getting
used
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“you dead man you dead man I hate you the most, you dead man you dead man I hate you the most.”
― Grace Yee, Chinese Fish

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“Chinese food
is supposed to be good, but it is strange and uncanny.
In a bowl of clean water there were several
things that looked like specimens
that are kept in spirits in surgeons' museums 'Fish!'
explained the cook. 'What sort?' 'Oh,
Chinese fish!”
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