Stephanie Niu is a poet and writer from Marietta, Georgia. I Would Define the Sun, her first full-length poetry collection, won the inaugural Vanderbilt University Literary Prize. She is also the author of the chapbooks Survived By: An Atlas of Disappearance and She Has Dreamt Again of Water. Her work has appeared in The Georgia Review, The Missouri Review, Literary Hub, Copper Nickel, Ecotone, and elsewhere.