In 2019, she published her debut poetry collection, Careen, with Noemi Press, and in 2022, she won the Stella Kupferberg Memorial Short Story Prize.
[3] In 2019, Liew released Careen, her debut collection of poetry published by Noemi Press.
[4] The Rumpus hailed Liew's "entrancing voice, enormously creative language, and surprising infusion of offbeat humor", and the Adroit Journal lauded Liew's approach to facilitating discourse about identity that also interrogate systems and structures.
[12] The same year, Liew earned a MacDowell Fellowship for literature; there, she worked on a novel-in-progress about a fictional gambling city in Malaysia.
[14][15][16] Her poetry has appeared in the Asian American Writers' Workshop's The Margins, Honey Literary, Banango Street, and others.