Li-Young Lee

Li-Young Lee is the author of The Undressing (W. W. Norton, 2018); Behind My Eyes (W. W. Norton, 2008); Book of My Nights (BOA Editions, 2001), which won the 2002 William Carlos Williams Award; The City in Which I Love You (BOA Editions, 1990), which was the 1990 Lamont Poetry Selection; and Rose (BOA Editions, 1986), which won the Delmore Schwartz Memorial Poetry Award. He has been the recipient of many awards, including a Fellowship from the Academy of American Poets, a Lannan Literary Award, a Whiting Writer’s Award, and the PEN Oakland/Josephine Miles Award.