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Nationality
  
American

Genre
  
Poetry


Name
  
Karen Lee

Role
  
Poet

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Books
  
Phyla of Joy: Poems, Ardor, In Medias Res: A Primer of, Anglophone Literatures in the Asi, God's One Hundred Promises

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Karen An-hwei Lee (born 1973) is an American poet.

Contents

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Life

Born in 1973, and raised in Massachusetts, Lee is a Chinese American poet, translator, and critic. 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 first poetry book, In Medias Res: a primer of experience in approximate alphabetical order, was selected by poet Heather McHugh and published by Sarabande Books in 2004. Lee received six 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.

Her poetry and fiction has appeared in Greensboro Review, Prairie Schooner, Columbia Poetry Review, 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).

Awards

  • 2005 National Endowment for the Arts Literature Grant
  • 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
  • Works

  • "Falling Leaves Return to Roots". Spoon River Poetry Review. XXVII (1). Winter–Spring 2003. 
  • "Meditation on a Cenote". Emprise Review. 8. April–May 2008. 
  • "Third Letter: Resilience". Swarthmore Review (1). Spring 2008. 
  • Poetry books

  • Ardor. Tupelo Press. 2008. ISBN 978-1-932195-69-9. 
  • In Medias Res. Sarabande Books. 2004. ISBN 978-1-932511-07-9. 
  • God's One Hundred Promises. Swan Scythe Press. 2002. ISBN 978-1-930454-15-6. 
  • Women at the Well. Brown University. 1997. 
  • References

    Karen An-hwei Lee Wikipedia


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