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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>'''Ed Bok Lee''' is an American writer. His most recent book, ''Whorled'' (Coffee House Press), won the 2012 American Book Award, and the 2012 Minnesota Book Award in Poetry. His first book, ''Real Karaoke People'' (New Rivers Press), won the 2006 [[PEN/Open Book|PEN/Open Book Award]], and the 2006 [[Asian American Literary Award]] (Members' Choice Award).<br />
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Lee was raised in [[South Korea]], [[North Dakota]] and [[Minnesota]].<ref>{{citation|title=Literature: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, Drama, and Writing|editor1-first=X.J.|editor1-last=Kennedy|editor2-first=Dana|editor2-last=Gioia|publisher=Longman|year=2012}}</ref> He studied Slavic and Central Asian Studies at the [[University of Minnesota]]; Kazakh State [[Al-Farabi University]] in [[Almaty]], [[Kazakhstan]]; [[Indiana University]] and the [[University of California, Berkeley]].<ref>{{citation|title=Back Pack Literature: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, Drama, and Writing|editor1-first=Dana|editor1-last=Gioia|editor2-first=X.J.|editor2-last=Kennedy|page=941|publisher=Pearson|year=2011}}</ref> He received a [[Master of Fine Arts]] from [[Brown University]]. Recognition for his poems, fiction, essays and plays include grants from the McKnight Foundation, Jerome Foundation, Minnesota State Arts Board, [[Loft Literary Center]], and [[National Endowment for the Arts]].<ref>{{citation|title=Where One Voice Ends, Another Voice Begins|editor-first=Robert|editor-last=Hedin|page=[https://books.google.com/books?id=fGIJN56SoEgC&pg=PA224 224]|publisher=Minnesota Historical Society|year=2007}}</ref><br />
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He has worked as a journalist, phys. ed. instructor, bartender, script writer and business translator, and has shared his various work in journals, anthologies, and on stages across North America, Europe and Asia, as well as on public radio and TV, including MTV. Lee's plays, including ''Passage'', ''El Santo Americano'', ''St. Petersburg'', and ''History K'', have been seen at major regional and national theaters including the [[Guthrie Theater]], New York Theatre Workshop, [[Joseph Papp Public Theater]], [[Mu Performing Arts|Theater Mu]], Taipei Theatre, Trinity Repertory Company and the [[Walker Art Center]]. He teaches in [[Metropolitan State University]].<ref>http://www.metrostate.edu/student/university-info/university-info/university-directory</ref>{{citation needed|date=October 2011}}<br />
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==References==<br />
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==External links==<br />
*[http://www.edboklee.com Official website]<br />
*[http://www.molossus.co/interview/dismantling-wisdom-a-brief-conversation-with-ed-bok-lee Molossus Interview]<br />
*[http://aaww.org/speaker-in-a-future-age-ed-bok-lee-on-poetry-places-and-the-death-of-tongues The Margins Interview]<br />
*[http://www.beforecolumbusfoundation.com/index.html American Book Awards]<br />
*[http://www.constantcritic.com/ray_mcdaniel/whorled Book Review ''Constant Critic'']<br />
*[http://www.coffeehousepress.org/2011/06/whorled "Whorled" by Coffee House Press] <br />
*[http://www.poets.org/page.php/prmID/616 Poets.org Summer Reading]<br />
*[http://minnesota.publicradio.org/www_publicradio/tools/media_player/popup.php?name=minnesota/news/features/2011/09/23/sweetmen_20110923_64 "Sweet Men" (audio poem)]<br />
*[http://www.kartikareview.com "Kartika Review" Interview]<br />
*[http://www.knightarts.org/community/stpaul/a-poetic-vision-for-a-globalized-world-in-ed-bok-lees-whorled Book Review, Knight Arts]<br />
*[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'']<br />
*[http://www.mnartists.org/article.do?rid=118962 Al Franken and Ed Bok Lee on Mixing Politics and Art ''Exchange a+E'']<br />
*[http://www.edboklee.com/bestsellers.Contemporary.html 2007 Poetry Bestsellers]<br />
*[http://www.boxcarpoetry.com/ Book Review ''Boxcar Poetry Review'']<br />
*[http://www.mnartists.org/article.do?rid=103326 Book Review ''Thinking Souls'']<br />
*[http://pen.org/page.php/prmID/1341 PEN Open Book Awards and Lee's poetry and prose]<br />
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