Ae Hee Lee (Of Footnotes, Pineapple Slices, and Wonder)

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Read: "Disambiguation" at Poetry Daily

Purchase: Asterism by Ae Hee Lee (Tupelo Press, 2024)

Ae Hee Lee--born in South Korea and raised in Peru--is the author of ASTERISM, which was selected by John Murillo for the 2022 Dorset Prize, and the poetry chapbooks Bedtime || Riverbed (Compound Press 2017), Dear bear, (Platypus Press 2021), and Connotary (Frost Place Chapbook Competition Winner – Bull City Press 2021). Ae Hee is a Just Buffalo Literary Center Fellow, Adroit Journal Gregory Djanikian Scholar, recipient of the James Olney Award by The Southern Review, and Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowship Finalist. She has also received scholarships and honors from the Academy of American Poets, AWP, Bread Loaf, Sewanee Writers’ Conference, and the Palm Beach Poetry Festival, among others.

Recommended Reading:

Build Yourself a Boat by Camonghne Felix

The Body: An Essay by Jenny Boully

Ghost by Rachel Whiteread (National Gallery)

The Atomic Sonnets by Rosebud Ben-Oni

Goblin Market by Christina Rossetti