Ed Bok Lee

Ed Bok Lee is the author of Real Karaoke People: Poems & Prose, a national best-seller in poetry and winner of a PEN/Beyond Margins Award, as well as an Asian American Literary Award (Members' Choice Award).

Lee attended kindergarten in South Korea, grew up in North Dakota and Minnesota, and has since lived in a half-dozen different cities around the world. He studied Slavics at the Universities of California--Berkeley, Minnesota, Kazakh State--Almaty, and holds an M.F.A from Brown University.

His plays, including Passage, El Santo Americano, and St. Petersburg have been seen at major regional and national theaters including the Guthrie Theater, New York Theatre Workshop, Joseph Papp Public Theatre, Theater Mu, Taipei Theatre, Trinity Repertory Company, and the Walker Art Center.

Other awards for his poems, fiction, essays, and plays include grants from the Jerome Foundation, Minnesota State Arts Board, Loft Literary Center, and National Endowment for the Arts.

External links

* [http://www.edboklee.com Official website]

* [http://www.ialink.tv/e_news/v3i6/edboklee.php Interview on ImaginAsianLink]
* [http://minnesota.publicradio.org/display/web/2006/04/28/midmorning2/ MPR/NPR - Midmorning Radio Show Interview]
* [http://www.mnartists.org/article.do?rid=118962 Al Franken and Ed Bok Lee on Mixing Politics and Art, "Exchange a+E"]
* [http://www.tripmastermonkey.com/archives/trip_lit/september_13_2006_ed_bok_lee.php Interview on "tripmastermonkey"]
* [http://www.mnartists.org/article.do?rid=102672 Interview on "Thinking Souls"]
* [http://www.mplsobserver.com/node/809 Interview in "Minneapolis Observer"]

* [http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/12/04/RVGMHFU0V41.DTL&hw=ed+bok+lee&sn=001&sc=1000 Book Review, "San Francisco Chronicle"]
* [http://www.slweekly.com/article.cfm/diversereadings Book Review, "Salt Lake City Weekly"]
* [http://www.boxcarpoetry.com/ Book Review, "Boxcar Poetry Review"]
* [http://www.mnartists.org/article.do?rid=103326 Book Review, "Thinking Souls"]
* [http://english2.mnsu.edu/cwpubs/corresponder/corrf05.pdf Book Review, "The Corresponder"]

* [http://www.edboklee.com/Widewideword.pdf Feature Article, "Minneapolis Star Tribune"]
* [http://english.seoul.go.kr/today/infocus/interview/1235167_5099.php Feature Article, "Seoul Magazine"]

* [http://pen.org/page.php/prmID/1341 PEN Open Book Awards and Lee's poetry and prose]
* [http://www.edboklee.com/bestsellers.Contemporary.html Poetry Bestsellers]
* [http://www.aaww.org/awards_2006pics.html Asian American Literary Awards]