Fall Feature
Our Fall Feature brings one author to campus for a reading of their work and a session to discuss creative writing with students and the public.
Coming fall 2025: Li-Young Lee on September 24.
Li-Young Lee was born in 1957 in Jakarta, Indonesia, to Chinese parents. His father had been a personal physician to Mao Zedong while in China and relocated the family to Indonesia, where he helped found Gamaliel University. In 1959, the Lee family fled the country to escape anti-Chinese sentiment and, after a five-year trek through Hong Kong, Macau, and Japan, they settled in the United States in 1964. Lee attended the University of Pittsburgh and University of Arizona, as well as the State University of New York at Brockport.
Lee is the author of The Invention of the Darling (W. W. Norton, 2024); 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.
Past writers of our Fall Feature include former Poet Laurate Charles Wright, David Madden, Stephen Graham Jones, Michael Knight, Margaret Renkl, and Jeff VanderMeer.
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