LI-YOUNG LEE’s poems are individual attempts at honoring the sacred in the immediate world, in the simple tasks, the common rituals, shared by families: the stuff of memory. He is the author of three poetry collections Rose (1986), The City in Which I Love You (1990 Lamont Poetry Prize winner), and Book of My Nights (2001), and the memoir, The Winged Seed, A Remembrance (1995) which, like many of his poems, recounts his parents’ exile from China and the family’s flight from religious persecution in Indonesia. The recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts, Lee’s many awards include the Lannan Literary Award, the Whiting Award, The PEN Josephine Miles Award, and the I. B. Lavan Award. He lives in Chicago with his extended family.