Ed Bok Lee
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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.
[edit] External links
- Interview on ImaginAsianLink
- MPR/NPR - Midmorning Radio Show Interview
- Al Franken and Ed Bok Lee on Mixing Politics and Art, Exchange a+E
- Interview on tripmastermonkey
- Interview on Thinking Souls
- Interview in Minneapolis Observer
