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Karen An-hwei Lee in 2015. Photo by Onthedeck. Licensed under Creative Commons, courtesy Wikimedia Commons.
Karen An-hwei Lee (born 1973) is an Chinese-American poet,literary critic, and translator, and a novice harpist..
Life[]
Lee was born and raised in Massachusetts. She earned an M.F.A. in creative writing from Brown University and a Ph.D. in literature from the University of California, Berkeley. A former resident writing fellow at the MacDowell Colony for the Arts in Peterborough, New Hampshire, and the Millay Colony for the Arts in Austerlitz, New York, Lee currently resides in Santa Ana, California.
Her debut collection of poetry, In Medias Res: a primer of experience in approximate alphabetical order, was selected by Heather McHugh and published to critical acclaim by Sarabande Books in 2004.
Her poetry and fiction has appeared in Greensboro Review,[1] Prairie Schooner,[2] Columbia Poetry Review,[3] and a number of other publications. She is the author of a chapbook, God's One Hundred Promises (Swan Scythe Press, 2002), and a second full-length collection, Ardor (Tupelo Press, 2008).
Recognition[]
Following the publication of In Medias Res (Sarabande, 2004), Lee received national accolades including 6 Pushcart Prize nominations, a National Endowment for the Arts grant, the Poetry Society of America's Norma Farber First Book Award, the Kathryn A. Morton Prize for Poetry from Sarabande Books, and the July Open sponsored by Tupelo Press.
Awards[]
- 2005 National Endowment for the Arts Literature Grant [4]
- 2004 Poetry Society of America's Norma Farber First Book Award.
- 2004 Kathryn A. Morton Prize for Poetry, Sarabande Books
- 2002 Swan Scythe Press Prize
- Eisner Prize, University of California, Berkeley
- Yoshiko Uchida Foundation Fellowship
- Beinecke Foundation Fellowship
- John Hawkes Prize, Brown University
Publications[]
Poetry[]
- God's One Hundred Promises. Davis, CA: Swan Scythe Press, 2002. ISBN 978-1-930454-15-6
- In Medias Res: A a primer of experience in approximate alphabetical order. Louisville, KY: Sarabande Books, 2004. ISBN isbn=978-1-932511-07-9
- Ardor. Dorset, VT: Tupelo Press, 2008. ISBN 978-1-932195-69-9
- Phyla of Joy: Poems. North Adams, MA: Tupelo Press, 2012.
- What the Sea Earns for a Living (chapbook). Quaci Press, 2014.
Non-fiction[]
- Anglophone Literatures in the Asian Diaspora. Cambria Press, 2013.
"Fire on Angel Island," a poem by Karen An-hwei Lee
Except where noted, bibliographical information courtesy Poets & Writers.[5]
See also[]
References[]
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External links[]
- Poems
- Karen An-hwei Lee poem at the Academy of American Poets
- "Falling Leaves Return to Roots". Spoon River Poetry Review XXVII (1). Winter/Spring 2003. http://www.nea.gov/features/Writers/writersCMS/writer.php?id=05_11.
- "Third Letter: Resilience". Swarthmore Review (1). Spring 2008. http://www.swarthmore.edu/x19220.xml.
- Karen An-hwei Lee,at the Poetry Foundation
- Audio / video
- Karen An-hwei Lee poems at YouTube
- Books
- Karen An-hwei Lee at Amazon.com
- About
- Karen An-hwei Lee at Poets & Writers
- "VG:Interview", Bryan Thao Worra, Asian American Press
- "'A Votive Flame': An interview with Karen An-hwei Lee at the Library of Congress
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