Valerie Hsiungis a poet who writes between worlds, where language meets ritual and abolition meets afterlife. Drawing on diasporic, ecological, and metaphysical inquiry, her books dissolve the borders of poetry, prose, and philosophy into a single listening body. She is the author of eight full-length books, including The pedestrian (Nightboat Books), The Naif (Ugly Duckling Presse), and The only name we can call it now is not its only name (Counterpath), Her work has been presented internationally at Double Change (Paris), Hyle (Athens), and the Jaipur Literature Festival. Born to Chinese-Taiwanese immigrants in Cincinnati, Ohio, she now lives in the foothills of Colorado, where she teaches writing at the limits of language at the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at Naropa University. forms of particulate matter.