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Grace Yee, poet (Chinese Fish, Joss)

Photo: Zachary RM Wong

Grace Yee

Grace Yee’s poetry has been widely published and anthologised in Australia and internationally. Her awards include the Patricia Hackett Prize, the Peter Steele Poetry Award, a Creative Fellowship at the State Library Victoria, and grants from Creative Victoria and the Australia Council. She has taught creative writing at Deakin University, and at the University of Melbourne, where she completed a PhD on settler Chinese women’s storytelling in Aotearoa New Zealand. Her debut collection Chinese Fish won the 2024 Victorian Prize for Literature, the Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for Poetry, and the Ockham New Zealand Book Award for Poetry. Her second collection, Joss: A History, is forthcoming with Giramondo in June 2025.

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Joss: A History

Grace Yee

80 pages
Paperback, 21 x 14.8 cm
Published June 2025
ISBN 9781923106314

Grace Yee’s follow-up to her triple award-winning poetry collection Chinese Fish, Joss: A History is inspired by the lived experiences of early Chinese settlers in Bendigo, and their compatriots and descendants across Victoria and New South Wales, and Aotearoa New Zealand. The poems pay tribute to the author’s ancestors, illuminating how they survived – and thrived – amid longstanding colonialist stories that have exoticised and diminished Chinese communities in white settler nations around the Pacific Rim since the gold rushes of the nineteenth century. Refracted through a twenty-first century lens, Joss is grounded in the conviction that the past is not past, that historical events reverberate insistently in the present.

Chinese Fish

Grace Yee

144 pages
Paperback, 21 x 14.8 cm
Published June 2023
ISBN 9781922725448

A family saga narrated in multiple voices and laced with archival fragments and scholarly interjections, Chinese Fish offers an intimate glimpse into the lives of women and girls in a community that has historically been characterised as both a ‘yellow peril’ menace and an exotic ‘model minority’.