Bella Li (born 1983) is a Chinese-born Australian poet.
Li was born in China in 1983. When she was three she and parents migrated to Australia. Li has an Arts/Law degree from the University of Melbourne.[1] In 2020 she received a PhD from the same university for her thesis, "The Forest, the Desert and the Road: Chronotopes of American Spaces in Twentieth-century Long-form Poetry; and a Creative Work, 'Hotel America'".[2]
Her poetry has appeared in Meanjin,[3] Cordite and other literary journals.[1] In 2017 Li was awarded a literary grant by the Australia Council.[4] She served as a judge for the 2020 Overland Judith Wright Poetry Prize.[5]