ED BOK LEE
is the author of Real Karaoke People: Poems & Prose,
winner of a PEN/Beyond Margins Award, an Asian American Literary
Award (Members' Choice), an Urban Griots Best Book Award, and in
2007 a national poetry bestseller.
The son of Korean emigrants -- his mother from what has since become
the Communist North, his father from the South -- he attended kindergarten
in South Korea, and grew up in North Dakota and Minnesota.
After studying Russian and Central Asian languages and literatures
at the Universities of Minnesota, Kazakh State--Almaty, and California--Berkeley,
he received an MFA in Creative Writing from Brown University.
Lee has recited his poetry across the U.S., Europe,
and Asia, as well as for radio and TV, including MTV.
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1 (left to right on top banner) by David Huang
Photo 2 by Charissa Uemura
photo/artwork 4 and 5 by Michael Hoyt