Karen An-hwei Lee’s recent poetry collections are The Beautiful Immunity (Tupelo Press 2024) and Duress (Cascade Books 2022). Her writing has appeared in Kenyon Review, Iowa Review, Michigan Quarterly, Poetry Northwest, Washington Square Review, Image: Art, Faith, Mystery, and anthologized in Best Spiritual Writing and Pearson’s Literature: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, Drama, and Writing (14th Edition, ed. by X.J. Kennedy and Dana Gioia). Lee has received a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, the Glenna Luschei Award from Prairie Schooner, and the Norma Farber First Book Award for In Medias Res (Sarabande 2004). She lives in greater Chicago.