Lee Quan Yi
born San Francisco 1966
grew up in Chinatown and the Sunset District
received encouragement from her English teachers at Lowell High School
University of California B.A., English
Emily Chamberlain Cook Poetry Prize and the James D. Phelan Literary Award
appeared in Ploughshares, The Kenyon Review, ZYZZYVA, Storming Heaven's Gate: An Anthology of Women's Spiritual Writing (Plume), Making More Waves: New Writing by Asian American Women (Beacon Press), and other journals and anthologies
technical writer
a Buddhist witch-in-training
works at an Asian-American senior activities center in San Francisco
Wishbone was published in 2000 by the Roundhouse Press as part of the California Poetry Series
currently working on her second book of poetry, Chu's House of Lovely Animals
bought a house with her husband George Ripley, former guitarist for The Stains, now chef for the Salvation Army's Senior Meals Program, and their cats, Zoe and Little Guy in the Outer Mission, San Francisco
Priscilla Lee at ModernWife.com
Priscilla Lee at Ploughshares the literary journal
Priscilla Lee at Poetry Magazine September 2000
Priscilla Lee at Poetry Magazine November 2002
Priscilla Lee at San Francisco Public Library
Priscilla Lee at ZYZZYVA "At the Wonton Monkee"