Ed Bok Lee is the author of three books of poetry and prose, Real Karaoke People, Whorled, and Mitochondrial Night, as well as numerous short stories, plays, and essays. Lee’s poems and prose have been translated into French, Italian, Spanish, Korean, and Chinese. Other honors include an American Book Award, an Asian American Literary Award (Members’ Choice Award), a Minnesota Book Award, and a PEN/Open Book Award. As a literary translator, he is a recipient of the 49th Modern Korean Literature Translation Grand Prize in Poetry. Lee attended kindergarten in Seoul, South Korea, studied and worked variously while attending Minnesota, Yonsei (Seoul), Al-Farabi Kazakh National, Indiana, and Berkeley, and holds an MFA from Brown University. He is an Associate Professor at Metro State University, and for over two decades has also taught poetry in youth centers, public libraries, prisons, and many other programs around the nation and beyond.