"We are blessed to have these poems."
—Li-Young Lee, author of The Invention of the Darling
"Niu has a sense of humor about the peculiarities of our age, and demonstrates an elegant sense of form in every poem."
—Dana Levin, author of Now Do You Know Where You Are
"[Niu] exercises an expanse of seeing fitting for the complexity of our world."
–Major Jackson, author of Razzle Dazzle
Winner of the Vanderbilt University Literary Prize
Coming February 18, 2025
Stephanie Niu is a poet and writer from Marietta, Georgia. Her debut poetry collection, I Would Define the Sun, won the inaugural Vanderbilt University Literary Prize. She is the author of the chapbooks Survived By: An Atlas of Disappearance (Host Publications, 2024), and She Has Dreamt Again of Water (Diode Editions, 2022). Her work has appeared in The Georgia Review, The Missouri Review, Literary Hub, Copper Nickel, Ecotone, and elsewhere. She lives in Brooklyn, NY.
