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Angela Liu
@angelaliu.bsky.social
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Writer/poet. Tiger mom. Hugo, Nebula, Ignyte, Rhysling, Locus, & Astounding Award finalist. She/her.

Member of: SFWA, Codex, SFPA.

Words in Clarkesworld, Strange Horizons, Uncanny, Logic(s)

https://linktr.ee/liu_angela
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metaphysics question: what is karma? answer: there is a wheel and it is turning. by Lucille Clifton (From Next: New Poems)
December 5, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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Ultraman curry.
Rice with cheese slices in the shape of Ultraman. Curry with cheese stars with fried pork cutlet and deep fried prawn
November 22, 2025 at 2:49 AM
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This poem by Andrea Gibson perfectly encapsulates the feeling I get when people say "hey, why don't you have more confidence?"
Diagnosis I suffer from unrequited self love. I love myself, but I don't love myself back. -Andrea Gibson
November 19, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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there are 4 types of guys online. no exceptions
(clockwise from top left): gojo, nanami, sukuna, and choso from jujutsu kaisen
November 19, 2025 at 8:08 AM
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this poem. this feeling.
FOUR FRIENDS CATCH UP OVER PASTA I'm doing better / they need to run more tests / we're moving in together / I'm never dating again / how is your dad? / how is your heart? / how are you dealing with the state of the world? / I love your new hair color / I'm on new meds / remember how young we used to be? / let's build a commune / we can have sheep | and goats? / yes, and dancing / I missed you / it's been too long / this is delicious - the sauce, the salad / this night / all of it. - Amy Kay
November 15, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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Hey y’all, if you haven’t picked up a copy of @vanessafogg.bsky.social‘s debut collection, you are missing out on some of the most beautiful worlds I’ve ever read (I seriously wanted to live in some of these places).
The House of Illusionists by Vanessa Fogg, paperback cover featuring a tiled roof house with a purple flowering tree behind
November 12, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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NY Times used to be my go-to for news, but I can’t even open it these days without getting wtf vibes from their headlines. Saw this one on election day when so many other places were exalting the city's highest voter turnout in 50+ years.
"A Little-Noted Element Propelled Mamdani's Rise: Gen Z Loneliness" (clearly it wasn't the insane rise of housing/cost of living and broken healthcare system)
November 7, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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Seems like a good time to bring out this old unhinged Fujimoto anecdote too.
"Until age 24 or so, I lived with my girlfriend in a 15,000-yen apartment in Yamagata. The people around us were kind and would give us fruits and vegetables. So while we didn't have much, I think we ate a well-balanced diet. Even though we were poor, we had a pet Japanese rice fish. I found it dead one summer. I went to toss its body into the trash like in Parasyte, but my girlfriend said she wanted me to bury it, so off I went to the park, alone. I tried to bury it under this big tree, but the ground was too hard, my hands got all dirty, and I had no hole to show for my effort. Out of options, I figured I would pretend I had buried the fish and left it lying there on top of the ground. As I watched it for a little while, ants found the body and began trying to carry it away. I'm not sure what came over me, but in that moment, love for that pet fish welled within me for the first time. I brushed the ants away, and then I ate it. The next day, I had an upset stomach. And when my girlfriend suggested it was something I'd eaten, I came up with some lie to cover up the fact that I'd eaten our pet fish. I've had people get mad at me many times throughout my life, and when I'm scared of that, the lies just spill out. Most of the time I get caught in them, but that time I didn't. That brings us to now. The memory of lying to my girlfriend is far stronger than the guilt of eating our pet fish. Please allow me to confess my sin here." -from Tatsuki Fujimoto Before Chainsaw Man: 22–26
November 7, 2025 at 5:36 AM
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Tatsuki Fujimoto on the importance of setting goals as artists (go watch the new Chainsaw Man movie--it's funny and bloody and surprisingly poignant).
Fujimoto: There weren't any prep schools near me, so I went to an art class with a lot of old people, where I did oil paintings in the corner. There were good artists there, so I decided that if I didn't get better than them in four years I would kill them, and since I didn't want to go on the run if I was a good artist, I just kept drawing. (from an interview with Hiroaki Samura: https://sp.shonenjump.com/p/sp/1706/fp_interview/index5.html)
November 6, 2025 at 5:32 AM
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Unreal to hold a book with a story of mine translated into different language. Absolute dream come true 😭
Paperback cover of Ihr Körper, das Schiff, featuring a woman on the dark desolate surface of an extraterrestrial planet with pyramid-like shaped lights overhead. https://a7lbooks.de/books/ihr-koerper-das-schiff/ First page of “Pinocchio Photography,” translated into German (original English: https://clarkesworldmagazine.com/liu_03_23/)
November 5, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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Gorgeous day to vote and send Cuomo to Florida.

Jokes aside, there are several important charter amendments on the ballot this year regarding affordable housing, infrastructure modernization, and voter turnout.

Get more info here + vote on a better NYC: voterguide.abundanceny.org/charter-amen...
I voted sticker against a backdrop of blue sky and changing autumn leaves
November 4, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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"the pumpkins say: I want to die.

They are like humans.
They rot from the inside out."

Happy Halloween, guys 💀
OCTOBER Now the porches are empty. They are motionless. They are worthless. Their lights quiver. On one, four pumpkins frozen in misfortune, their grimaces carved. Only on untroubled, horned grin of a baby. Last night, each masked boy looked inside his bag after the candy fell. As if looking would change the outcome. Now, without listeners between wind, the pumpkins say: I want to die. They are like humans. They rot from the inside out. - Victoria Chang
October 31, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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This was a wild ride.

I didn’t love a lot of the characterizations, but man, things got really crazy by the middle (complimentary) and I couldn’t put it down.
Hardcover of Julie Chan Is Dead by Liann Zhang featuring identical blond women with one black-haired woman in the center with a phone over her eyes
October 30, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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Got a cool book in the mail! Huge thanks to @omgjulia.bsky.social for putting together this wonderful collection of spec poetry to commemorate the inaugural Hugo Award in poetry this year. Honored to have two poems in here, including “High School Graduation, June 2099” (w/ my reimagination of prom)
Paperback cover for Worlds of Possibility - Poetry (edited by Julia Rios), featuring a woman gathering planets over her head in front of a backdrop of stars High School Graduation (excerpt) Angela Liu 26 lines, first published June 2025 I miss the notes you folded into my locker, your face and mine in the same changing room mirror I don’t miss the gym shorts, the zero gravity, but I miss those narrow legs bird-like, longing for solid ground, the first kiss in the hall between classes we rode a sky limo through Times Square in satin dresses, drunk on lights
October 20, 2025 at 6:43 PM
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The text on the original 1982 book cover of The Running Man hitting hard in 2025.
Paperback cover from 1982 featuring hands holding a sphere with a screaming man inside. The text reads: “Welcome to America in 2025 when the best men don’t run for president. They run for their lives. The Running Man Richard Bachman”
October 10, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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Got my own golden ball from Dandadan
Golden ball with “Dandadan” printed on it, held in front of a sunny window
October 9, 2025 at 10:07 PM
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This review for Goodnight Moon is a fucking masterpiece.
Margaret Wise Brown's nihilistic classic is a howling renunciation of God, here depicted as a "quiet old lady whispering 'hush'." There is no afterlife here, no reward, no release from the crushing mundanity of life. There is only the bowl of pathetic mush, the forlorn mittens, the abandoned balloon, the telephone that never rings. We live our lives in a "great green room", but at the end we accumulate nothing but the discarded trappings of our childhoods. Even love cannot offer solace: where are our families when the end comes? "Goodnight nobody," we call into the blackness. There is no hope in the world without us. We know what will happen, when we close our eyes, to the young mouse left alone with two kittens. They will toy with him; they will torture him and leave his decapitated body on our pillow. But we will never awake to see its guts splayed out near our heads. "Goodnight air," the poem ends. "Goodnight noises everywhere." We fall, silently, into the void. https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/900911702
October 7, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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The ads are everywhere here (with only cryptic messaging like "I'll ride the subway with you"), so I looked it up. I was not expecting something this depressing and pointless.
friend.com poster with "surveillance capitalism" and "get real friends" written on it
September 30, 2025 at 1:31 PM
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At the Brooklyn Book Festival and hey, there’s a picture book about our next mayor.
Zohran Walks New York by Millie von Platen https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/818504/zohran-walks-new-york-by-millie-von-platen/
September 20, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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Got my Nebula Award Showcase copies in the mail! Still so grateful to everyone who read “Imagine: Purple-Haired Girl Shooting Down The Moon.” I think that was the first time I ever felt like maybe I could make it as a writer (and even if I couldn’t, I still wanted to keep trying)
Covers for SFWA’s Nebula Awards Showcase 60 and 59, edited by Stephen Kotowych https://www.sfwa.org/product/nebula-awards-showcase-59/ https://www.sfwa.org/product/nebula-awards-showcase-60/ First page of “Imagine: Purple-Haired Girl Shooting Down The Moon,” novelette published in Clarkesworld https://clarkesworldmagazine.com/liu_06_23/
September 19, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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Richard Siken, speaking on poetry better than I ever could. His collection, Crush, was life-changing.

(Read the whole interview on @adroitjournal.bsky.social: theadroitjournal.org/issue-forty-...)
"The fundamental power of poetry is the friction between the sentence and the line. The sentence is a unit of meaning. When you break it, you get two or more units of meaning that exist simultaneously with the original meaning. No other form of writing has this quality. Since we’re not really writing in traditional forms anymore, it’s even more important to find ways of saying and writing that make shapes, support voice and music and rhythm, and help build architectures." https://theadroitjournal.org/issue-forty-seven/a-conversation-with-richard-siken/
September 19, 2025 at 1:39 PM
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Watched Demon Slayer: Infinity Castle and man, all I can say is, go watch it in IMAX. What a gorgeous film.
crows flying through the endless wooden rooms and halls in a pocket dimension controlled by a demon
September 16, 2025 at 3:29 AM
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Spent the past few days at Anime NYC and really appreciated the con’s strict no gen-AI artwork policy for their artist alley.

Always a joy to meet some of my favorite artists and buy some new prints for my workspace.
Art prints by: https://www.instagram.com/by.sau https://www.instagram.com/kofuku.art https://www.instagram.com/sundrop.studios/
August 26, 2025 at 3:08 AM
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Ahh~ I picked up an early copy of @vanessafogg.bsky.social’s new short story collection, The House of Illusionists, at @interstellarflight.bsky.social’s table at Worldcon! Such a gorgeous book 👀
The House of Illusionists and other stories by Vanessa Fogg paperback book https://www.interstellarflightpress.com/houseofillusionists.html
August 15, 2025 at 6:46 PM
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I’ll be at my first Worldcon this year!

Here’s my schedule (lots of poetry, East Asian speculative fic, and my first live reading!). Would love to see you 👋
Seattle Worldcon Schedule Angela Liu Wed, Aug 13th (3:00pm - 4:00pm) - Echoes and Otherworlds in East Asian Speculative Fiction
 Room 435-436 Wed, Aug 13th (4:30pm - 5:30pm) - Line Breaks, Prose Poetry, Prose Prose, and Experimental Formats
 Room 445-446 Thu, Aug 14th (1:30pm - 2:30pm) - Poetry Reading Room 445-446 Sun, Aug 17th (12:30pm - 1:00pm) - Reading: Angela Liu
 Room 429
August 7, 2025 at 3:16 PM