Ed Bok Lee is the author of three books of poetry and prose, including Whorled, and Mitochondrial Night, as well as short stories, essays, and plays. Lee’s poetry has been translated into French, Italian, Spanish, Korean, and Chinese. Honors include an American Book Award, an Asian American Literary Award (Members’ Choice Award), a Minnesota Book Award, and a PEN/Open Book Award, among others. With a background in local journalism and political theater, he is an award-winning Associate Professor at Metro State University in Minneapolis/St. Paul, and for over two decades has also translated poems and prose (Russian and Korean), organized programming and taught poetry in youth centers, prisons, public libraries, and many other places around the nation and beyond. He wrote his first poem in kindergarten in Seoul, South Korea.