Anni Liu is a writer, translator, and editor from the Chinese Northwest and the Midwestern United States. Her poems and translations are published or forthcoming in Ekosòn, The Georgia Review, Two Lines, Pleaides, ak Quarterly West, among others. The collection Border Vista (Persea) intimately narrates the experience of being undocumented, or precariously documented, in America. In poems that consider migration an ongoing process rather than a finite event, Liu writes exquisitely on fear (useful and paranoid) and agency, loneliness, and the way the violence of the carceral state shapes our most intimate relationships – to each other and to the land. As she does, she revisits moments of unexpected poignancy: searching for turtles in a drainage ditch, picking crabapples along a rural highway, and smelling the namesake flower of her mother, who is half a world away.