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Acclaimed poet Li-Young Lee is the author of two books of poetry: The
City in Which I Love You (BOA Editions, 1991), which was the 1990
Lamont Poetry Selection; and Rose (1986), which won the Delmore
Schwartz Memorial Poetry Award. He also wrote a memoir entitled The
Winged Seed: A Remembrance (Simon and Schuster, 1995), which received
an American Book Award from the Before Columbus Foundation. His other
honors include a Lannan Literary Award, a Whiting Writer's Award, grants
from the Illinois Arts Council, the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, the
Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, and the National Endowment for the
Arts, and a Guggenheim Foundation fellowship.
Born in Jakarta, Indonesia in 1957 to Chinese parents, Lee and his family fled
the country in 1959 after his father spent a year as a political prisoner in
President Sukarno's jails. From 1959 to 1964, the Lee family traveled throughout
Hong Kong, Macau, and Japan before finally settling in the United States. Lee
attended the Universities of Pittsburgh and Arizona, and the State University
of New York at Brockport. He has taught at several universities, including Northwestern
and the University of Iowa. He lives in Chicago, Illinois, with his wife, Donna,
and their two sons.
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