Valerie Hsiung

Valerie Hsiung is a poet and the author of eight collections of poetry and hybrid writing, including The pedestrian (forthcoming from Nightboat Books, 2026), The Naif (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2024), The only name we can call it now is not its only name (Counterpath, 2023), and To love an artist (Essay Press, 2022). She lives in the mountains of Colorado, where she teaches at Naropa’s Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics.