Karen An-hwei Lee

Karen An-hwei Lee is the author of Ardor (Tupelo Press, 2008), In Medias Res (Sarabande Books, 2004), and a chapbook, God’s One Hundred Promises (Swan Scythe Press, 2002). Lee has worked as a florist’s assistant, mended books in a rare-book archive, grown tissue cultures in a medical lab, and taught music lessons in the field of music therapy for mental health patients. Recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Grant and the Norma Farber First Book Award from the Poetry Society of America, she lives and teaches on the West Coast, where she is a novice harpist.

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