About Bitter Creek:

In September of 1885, the Chinese coal miners who were brought into Wyoming as strikebreakers were  ambushed and driven out of the town of Rock Springs at gunpoint by white coal miners. Bitter Creek revisits this  dark episode—known today as the Rock Springs Massacre—revealing the stories beneath this violent, decade long culmination of labor struggles and racial hostilities in the Union Pacific Coal Mines.  

Through the eyes of the struggling railroad workers, their families, and the corporation working them to the  bone, Teow Lim Goh creates an ode to buried history that blends epic tradition with modern composition and  astonishing empathy to ask the question, “What turns ordinary people into monsters?”

About Teow Lim Goh:

Teow Lim Goh is the author of three poetry collections, Islanders (2016), Faraway Places (2021), and Bitter Creek (2025). Her essay collection Western Journeys (2022) was a finalist for the 2023 Colorado Book Awards in Creative Nonfiction. Her writing has been featured in The Georgia Review, Beloit Poetry Journal, Los Angeles Review of Books, High Country News, and The New Yorker.