Priscilla Lee

Priscilla Lee is the author of Wishbone and Chiu’s House of Lovely Animals. Her poetry has appeared in Ploughshares, The Kenyon Review, ZYZZYVA, the Poetry Foundation website, Making More Waves, Yellow as Turmeric, Fragrant as Cloves, and The Place That Inhabits Us. Her honors include a Poetry Book Award from the Association for Asian American Studies, the Emily Chamberlain Cook Poetry Prize, the James D. Phelan Literary Award from the San Francisco Foundation, and the Greg Grummer Literary Award from Phoebe. Her debut, Wishbone, was selected for the Academy of American Poets Book Club and praised by Carolyn Forché as “poignant and absorbing... street-pure, wise.” Yusef Komunyakaa called it “bold and tender... a distilled passion,” and Kim Addonizio noted its “keen eye and ear” for stories that cross “past and present, fortune and accident.” She lives in San Francisco.