ED BOK LEE is the author of Real Karaoke People, winner of a PEN/Beyond Margins Open Book Award, an Asian American Literary Award (Members' Choice), and an Urban Griots Best Book Award.

The recipient of grants from such foundations as the McKnight, Jerome, and National Endowment for the Arts, Lee holds an MFA from Brown University and has recited his poetry across the U.S., Europe, and Asia, as well as for radio and TV, including MTV.