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Ed Bok Lee is the author of Real Karaoke People, a national best-seller in poetry and winner of a PEN/Open Book Award

PEN/Open Book

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, an Asian American Literary Award (Members' Choice Award), and a Many Voices Prize. Lee's second book is entitled Whorled (Coffee House Press, Fall 2011).

Lee was born in Fargo, North Dakota

Fargo, North Dakota

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and raised in South Korea

South Korea

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, North Dakota

North Dakota

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, and Minnesota

Minnesota

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. He studied Slavic and Central Asian Studies at the University of Minnesota

University of Minnesota

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, Kazakh State Al-Farabi University

Al-Farabi University

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in Almaty

Almaty

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, Kazakhstan

Kazakhstan

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, Indiana University

Indiana University

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, and the University of California, Berkeley

University of California, Berkeley

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. He received a Master of Fine Arts

Master of Fine Arts

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from Brown University

Brown University

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. Recognition 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

National Endowment for the Arts

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He has worked as a bartender, phys ed and ESL instructor, journalist, script writer, and business translator, and 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, and St. Petersburg, have been seen at major regional and national theaters including the Guthrie Theater

Guthrie Theater

The Guthrie Theater is a center for theater performance, production, education, and professional training in Minneapolis, Minnesota. It is the result of the desire of Sir Tyrone Guthrie, Oliver Rea, and Peter Zeisler to create a resident acting company that would produce and perform the classics in...

, New York Theatre Workshop, Joseph Papp Public Theater, Theater Mu

Mu Performing Arts

Mu Performing Arts is a Minneapolis based theater group formed in 1992 by Rick Shiomi, Dong-il Lee, Diane Espaldon, and Martha Johnson. It is composed of Theater Mu, which features stage performances and Mu Daiko, a taiko drumming ensemble...

, Taipei Theatre, Trinity Repertory Company, and the Walker Art Center

Walker Art Center

The Walker Art Center is a contemporary art center in Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States. The Walker is considered one of the nation's "big five" museums for modern art along with the Museum of Modern Art, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Guggenheim Museum and the Hirshhorn...

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