Tess Liem is a Canadian poet from Montreal, Quebec, who published their debut poetry collection Obits in 2018.
[1] The book was named one of the year's best Canadian poetry collections by CBC Arts,[2] and won the Gerald Lampert Award from the League of Canadian Poets in 2019.
[5] Liem's second collection, Slows: Twice, was published in 2023 by Coach House Books.
Reviewing the collection for Montreal Review of Books, Salena Wiener called Slows: Twice "chock-full of versions, inversions, and revisions of the self."
[6] Sylee Gore, for Poetry, praised the book's formal inventiveness as well as its "poised and raw" tone.