Grace Yee is a poet, writer and researcher based in Melbourne, Australia. Her work has appeared in Overland, Island, Meanjin, Southerly, Westerly, Rabbit, Cordite Poetry Review, The Shanghai Literary Review, Women's Museum of California, Landfall, Poetry New Zealand Yearbook, and Best of Australian Poems 2021, and Best of Australian Poems 2022, among others. In 2020, Grace was awarded the Patricia Hackett Prize, and the Peter Steele Poetry Award. She was a Creative Fellow at the State Library Victoria (2019-21), where she researched early settler Chinese Australian histories for a collection, Joss: A History (forthcoming).

Her debut collection Chinese Fish (Giramondo Publishing) began as part of her PhD thesis on settler Chinese women’s storytelling (University of Melbourne). In 2024, Chinese Fish was awarded the Victorian Prize for Literature, the Victorian Premier's Prize for Poetry, and the Mary and Peter Biggs Award for Poetry, Ockham New Zealand Book Awards.