Ed Bok Lee attended kindergarten in Seoul, grew up in North Dakota and Minnesota, and has since lived in a half-dozen cities around the world. He has studied Slavics at the Universities of California—Berkeley, Minnesota, Kazakh State—Almaty, Indiana University, and holds an MFA from Brown University. His work has been published in journals, magazines and anthologies, including Arts & Letters, Crab Orchard Review, St. Paul Pioneer Press, Manoa, Speakeasy, Take Ten II (Vintage), Key Ingredients: America by Food, among others. Grants and awards for his writing include support from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Minnesota State Arts Board, the Loft Literary Center, SASE, and the Jerome Foundation. Lee has read his poems, stories, and poelogues at over 200 venues, including schools, prisons, reservations, shelters, arts and cultural events and organizations, poetry clubs and bars, and numerous colleges and universities across the nation.