T. Liem is the author of Slows: Twice (Coach House Books, 2023), and Obits. (Coach House Books, 2018), which was shortlisted for a Lambda Literary Award, and won the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award as well as the A.M. Klein Prize. Their writing has been published in Voicemail poems, Apogee, Plenitude, The Boston Review, Grain, Maisonneuve, Catapult, The Malahat Review, The Fiddlehead, and elsewhere. Liem earned a BA from University of Toronto, as well as a BFA and MA from Concordia University. They were born and raised in a small farm town in Alberta, and for the last 13 years they have been living in Montreal, also known as Tio’Tia:ke, unceded Kanien’kehá:ka territories.