Dear Alter

A first poetry collection full of telenoid daydreams and androids in the bureaucracy.

Jiaqiao Liu (they/he) is a poet from Shandong, China, who grew up in Tamaki Makaurau. Their writing has been included in journals including The Spinoff, badapple and OF ZOOS, as well as in anthologies such as Orongohau Best New Zealand Poems 2017 and A Clear Dawn: New Asian Voices from Aotearoa New Zealand (Auckland University Press, 2021). Jiaqiao has an MA in creative writing from the International Institute of Modern Letters at Te Herenga Waka Victoria University of Wellington. Dear Alter is their first book.