Ed Bok Lee

Ed Bok Lee grew up in South Korea, North Dakota, and Minnesota and holds an MFA from Brown University. 

Lee is the author of three poetry collections: 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 is also the co-translator, with Eun-Mi Yang, of Pak Jeong-de’s poetry collection Hail, Che! (Black Ocean, 2025). He teaches at Metropolitan State University in Saint Paul, Minnesota.