Deluge: A Chinese Almanac
“Yet as / the tide climbed, I wondered: when the / floods arrived, would my prince be beside / me, willing to swim? Or would he, as my / mother’s bones hinted, flee?”
Nicole Wan-Ting Lee
Nicole W. Lee was born in Sydney, Australia to Chinese Malaysian parents. Her poetry has been published in Agni, Crazyhorse (now swamp pink), Gulf Coast, Meanjin, and wildness, and has received fellowships and scholarships from Bread Loaf Writers Conference, Tin House Summer and Winter Workshops, Palm Beach Poetry Festival, AWP, and Miami Book Fair. Currently she’s a poetry candidate in the low-residency MFA at Warren Wilson College and associate poetry editor at Four Way Review.