Karen An-hwei Lee explained

Karen An-hwei Lee
Occupation:	Poet
Nationality:	American
Education:	Brown University University of California, Berkeley
Genre:	Poetry

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

Life

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]

Awards

• 2019 Big Other Book Award for Fiction^[15]
• 2005 National Endowment for the Arts Literature Grant ^{[4] [16]}
• 2004 Poetry Society of America's Norma Farber First Book Award.^[17]
• 2004 Kathryn A. Morton Prize for Poetry, Sarabande Books^[18]
• 2002 Swan Scythe Press Prize^[18]
• 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. Winter–Spring 2003. XXVII. 1 .
• Meditation on a Cenote. Emprise Review. April–May 2008 . 8 .
• Third Letter: Resilience . Swarthmore Review. 1. Spring 2008 .

Poetry books

• 1997 . Women at the Well . MFA . Brown University . 40394616.
• Book: God's One Hundred Promises. Swan Scythe Press. 2002. 978-1-930454-15-6 .
• Book: In Medias Res. Sarabande Books. 2004. 978-1-932511-07-9 .
• Book: Ardor. Tupelo Press. 2008. 978-1-932195-69-9 . ^[19]
• Book: Phyla of Joy: Poems. Tupelo Press. 2012. 978-1-932195-14-9 .

Nonfiction books

• Book: Anglophone Literatures in the Asian Diaspora: Literary Transnationalism and Translingual Migrations. Cambria Press. 2013. 9781604978605 . ^[20]

External links

• "VG:Interview", Bryan Thao Worra, Asian American Press

Notes and References

1. Web site: Karen An-Hwei Lee. Poetry Foundation. 28 January 2014.
2. Web site: Karen A. Lee, Ph.D.. 2020-10-14. Point Loma Nazarene University. en.
3. Web site: 2020-06-12. Dr Karen An-Hwei Lee Appointed Provost. 2020-10-14. Wheaton College. en.
4. Web site: Karen An-Hwei Lee. NEA. 28 January 2014.
5. Web site: Karen An-Hwei Lee Profile. Poets & Writers. 28 January 2014.
6. Web site: GR Contributors: Fall 2006. www.greensbororeview.org.
7. Wasp.(Poem). https://web.archive.org/web/20121025185735/http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-157361972.html. dead. 25 October 2012. 22 December 2006. Prairie Schooner.
8. Web site: Columbia Poetry Review no. 20, 2007 . 2009-06-10 . 2009-02-05 . https://web.archive.org/web/20090205051133/http://english.colum.edu/cpr/arch/no20.htm . dead .
9. Karen An-Hwei Lee Poetry. As Us. 27 July 2013. 28 January 2014.
10. Web site: Table of Contents. The Leopard Seal. 9 February 2014.
11. Web site: God's One Hundred Promises. Swan Scythe. 28 January 2014.
12. Web site: Ardor by Karen An-Hwei Lee. Tupelo Press. 28 January 2014.
13. Book: Lee, Karen An-hwei, 1973-. Phyla of joy : poems. 2012. Tupelo Press. 978-1-932195-14-9. 1st pbk.. North Adams, Mass.. 764591404.
14. Web site: Ellipsis Press. www.ellipsispress.com.
15. Web site: Announcing the Winners of the 2019 Big Other Book Awards!. 17 May 2020.
16. Web site: NEA Writers' Corner: 2008 Literature Fellowships: Prose . 2009-06-10 . 2009-08-13 . https://web.archive.org/web/20090813045845/http://arts.endow.gov/features/writers/writersCMS/index.php?year=2005 . dead .
17. Web site: Poetry Society of America: Norma Farver Book Award. Poetry Society. 11 August 2013.
18. Web site: Poets & Writers: Karen Lee. Poets & Writers. 11 August 2013.
19. ARDOR by KAREN AN-HWEI LEE Reviews. EMILY SCHORR LESNICK . December 17, 2008 . Galatea Resurrects #11. 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..
20. Book: Lee, Karen An-Hwei. Anglophone literatures in the Asian diaspora: literary transnationalism and translingual migrations. 2013. Cambria Press. 978-1-60497-860-5. Amherst. English. 862802380.