Yi Wei is a first-generation Chinese writer and visual artist. Their work has been awarded the Lois Morrell Poetry Prize, the Frontier OPEN Prize, the Sappho Prize for Women Poets, and the Writer in the Public Schools fellowship at NYU’s MFA program. They collaborate closely with the Asian American Writers’ Workshop and organizations invested in the struggle of the Global South. They are unconditionally supportive of Palestinian liberation. They live in New York City.