Karen An-hwei Lee | |
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| Born | 1973 (age 49–50) |
| Occupation | Poet |
| Nationality | American |
| Education | Brown University; University of California, Berkeley |
| Genre | Poetry |
Karen An-hwei Lee (born 1973) is an American poet.
Karen An-hwei Lee | |
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| Born | 1973 (age 49–50) |
| Occupation | Poet |
| Nationality | American |
| Education | Brown University; University of California, Berkeley |
| Genre | Poetry |
Karen An-hwei Lee (born 1973) is an American poet.
Born in 1973, and raised in Massachusetts, Lee is a Chinese American poet, translator, and critic. [1] 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 resided in Santa Ana, California. She became vice provost for Point Loma Nazarene University in 2016. [2] In 2020, she became provost for Wheaton College. [3]
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, [4] 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. [5]
Her poetry and fiction has appeared in Greensboro Review , [6] Prairie Schooner , [7] Columbia Poetry Review, [8] and a number of other publications. [9] [10] She is the author of a chapbook, God's One Hundred Promises (Swan Scythe Press, 2002), [11] and additional full-length poetry collections, including Ardor (Tupelo Press, 2008) [12] and Phyla of Joy: Poems (Tupelo Press, 2012). [13] In 2017, Ellipsis Press published her first novella, Sonata in K. [14]
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{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)As an Asian-American woman poet, Lee is adamant in using her own voice and her own body as subject, while also criticizing systems of power that might place her there against her will. Throughout Ardor, Karen An-Hwei Lee is looking in a mirror, speaking directly to her body. The only way to enter the dialogue is to begin reading.
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