Grace Marie Liu is a Chinese-American writer from Michigan. She is a 2024 YoungArts National Winner with Distinction in Poetry and an alumna of the Adroit Journal Summer Mentorship Program and the Iowa Young Writers' Studio. Her writing has appeared or is forthcoming in The Minnesota Review, Sundog Lit, Up the Staircase Quarterly, Okay Donkey, and Jet Fuel Review, among others. She loves Studio Ghibli soundtracks, pistachio gelato, and summertime.