Ed Bok Lee

Ed Bok Lee grew up in South Korea, North Dakota, and Minnesota. He is the author of Mitochonrdrial Night (Coffee House Press, 2019), Whorled (Coffee House Press, 2011), which received the 2012 American Book Award and Minnesota Book Award, and Real Karaoke People (New Rivers Press, 2005), which received the PEN/Open Book Award and the Asian American Literary Award (Members’ Choice). Lee teaches at Metropolitan State University in Saint Paul, Minnesota.