Daniel W K Lee

Born Lư Phụ Cường, (Originally 李富強, later changed to 李華強 in Traditional Chinese, 李华强 in Simplified Chinese) in Kuching, Malaysia, Daniel is a third generation refugee going back to his grandparents on both maternal and paternal sides from southern China to Vietnam; his Vietnam-born parents became refugees from Vietnam to Malaysia during the purge of ethnic Chinese during the late 1970s before settling in the United States.

Raised in the western suburbs of Chicago (first in Forest Park, IL and later in Downers Grove, IL), Daniel moved to the City of New York in August 1996 to attend New York University, where he received his BA from the Gallatin School of Individualized Study. He also earned his MFA in Creative Writing from The New School before eventually leaving the Big Apple in February 2014. Daniel relocated to Seattle, WA in March 2014 and after a little over five years in the Pacific Northwest, he and his preposterously beautiful whippet Camden moved to New Orleans in December 2019.

His work has been widely published online and in print, including the Lambda Literary Award-nominated anthology Take Out: Queer Writing from Asian Pacific America, the Lambda Literary Award-winning anthology I Do/I Don’t: Queers on Marriage, and most recently the Gold Room Anthology, Of Rust and Glass Pride Anthology, SUSPECT, and Peauxdunque Review.