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12/3/2008
Sharon Doubiago reads from her memoir My Father's Lov
12/29/2008
The Association of Writers and Writing Programs presents
3/1/2009
Nickole Brown reading of Sister.
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Red Hen Press
Advisory Board Member
Li-Young Lee
Li-Young Lee was born in 1957 in Jakarta, Indonesia, of Chinese parents. In 1959, his father, after spending a year as a political prisoner in President Sukarno’s jails, fled Indonesia with his family. Between 1959 and 1964 they traveled in Hong Kong, Macau, and Japan, before arriving in America. His books of poetry include Book of My Nights (BOA Editions, Ltd. 2001), Rose (BOA Editions, Ltd. 1986), winner of the Delmore Schwartz Memorial Award from New York University, and The City in Which I Love You (BOA, 1990), the 1990 Lamont Poetry Selection from The Academy of American Poets. He is also author of an autobiography, The Winged Seed (Simon and Schuster, 1994). Lee’s honors include fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, The Lannan Foundation, and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. In 1988 he was the recipient of a Writer’s Award from the Whiting Foundation. Lee lives in Chicago with his wife, Donna, and their children.