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Poet-in-Residence
2024 / 2025  

T. Liem

T. Liem’s tenure as Poet-in-Residence will run from November 2024 to July 2025. A feature of new work by T. will appear in Arc Poetry Magazine #109, the Spring 2026 issue, alongside work by poets who participate in mentorships with T. during their residency. Previously unpublished Canadian poets who submit their poems to Arc will be considered for participation in the program. However, all poets are welcome to participate, and interested parties should send queries to editorialcoordinator@arcpoetry.ca.

Bio

Photo of T. Liem, a light-skinned person with shoulder-length dark-brown hair. They are wearing a grey hoodie under a red jacket, and they are standing in a field. In the background is a big, blue, cloudless sky and some green grass and trees.

T. Liem

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.