Simon Shieh

Simon Shieh is a Taiwanese American poet, an essayist, and an educator. He is the author of Master (Sarabande Books, 2023), winner of the 2022 Kathryn A. Morton Prize. His poems and essays have appeared in American Poetry Review, Best New Poets 2020 (University of Virginia Press), Guernica, Poetry, the Yale Review, and other publications.

From 2015 to 2017, Shieh served as a Princeton in Asia fellow teaching at China Foreign Affairs University. Soon after, he founded InkBeat Arts, a Beijing organization that empowers young people through artistic expression, and cofounded Spittoon literary magazine, which translates and publishes new Chinese writers in English. Shieh was writer-in-residence at the International School of Beijing from 2017–2018. He was shortlisted for a 2019 Young China Watcher of the Year award and has received support from a 2023 National Endowment for the Arts creative writing fellowship and a 2021 Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation. He lives in Washington, DC.