Miriam Wei Wei Lo

Miriam Wei Wei Lo lives in Noongar boodja in Walyalup/Fremantle. She writes to wrestle with meaning, motherhood, faith, and doubt, from an Asian-Australian perspective. Born in Canada to a Chinese-Malaysian father and an Anglo-Australian mother, she grew up in Singapore and moved to Australia when she was nineteen. Her first poetry book, Against Certain Capture, won the 2004 Western Australian Premier’s Prize for poetry and her latest poetry book, Who Comes Calling? Was published in November by WA Poets Publishing. She is a 2023 Westerly Mid Career Fellow and she still believes in comeback stories.