Tess Liem lives in Montreal, or Tiotia:ke, the traditional territory of the Kanien’kehá:ka people. Her first chapbook, Tell everybody I say hi, was published by Anstruther Press in February 2017. She won The Malahat Review‘s Constance Rooke Creative Nonfiction Prize in 2015, and her writing appears in The Puritan, Room magazine, The Walrus, and elsewhere.