Ed Bok Lee
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Korean American poet, playwright and fiction writer.
Ed Bok Lee is the author of 'Real Karaoke People' published by New Rivers Press, which won the 2006 PEN/Beyond Margins Literary Award and the 2006 Members' Choice Asian American Literary Award.
He attended kindergarten in South Korea, and grew up in North Dakota and Minnesota, and has since lived in a half-dozen different cities around the world. He studied Russian and Central Asian Languages and Literatures at the Universities of California -Berkeley, Minnesota, Kazakh State--Almaty, and holds an M.F.A from Brown University.
His plays, including 'Passage' 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.
Awards for his writings include grants from the Jerome Foundation, Minnesota State Arts Board, Loft Literary Center, and the National Endowment for the Arts.
