The Pedestrian

Valerie Hsiung writes between worlds, where language meets ritual and abolition meets afterlife. Her work dissolves the borders of poetry, prose, and philosophy into a single listening body, drawing on diasporic, ecological, and metaphysical inquiry. She is the author of eight books, including The Naif and The only name we can call it now is not its only name. She was born in Ohio and now lives in Colorado.