Ae Hee Lee

Ae Hee Lee (born in Pohang) is a Korean-American poet. In 2021, her chapbook Connotary won the Frost Place Chapbook Competition. The following year, she won the Dorset Prize for Asterism, which was published by Tupelo Press in 2024.

Lee was born in South Korea and raised in Peru. In 2017, she earned a Master of Fine Arts in creative writing from Notre Dame University, from which she received an Academy of American Poets Prize. She later earned a Doctor of Philosophy in literature and creative writing from the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee. While there, she was associate editor of the ''Cream City Review. ''

Her work has appeared in The Adroit Journal, Michigan Quarterly Review, Narrative, The Georgia Review, The Rumpus, and The Southern Review.

As of 2024, Lee lives in Wisconsin.

Works

 * Connotary (Bull City Press, ISBN 978-1-949344-28-8)
 * Dear bear (Platypus Press, 2021)
 * Asterism (Tupelo Press, 2023)