Summary
Lee Herrick is the California Poet Laureate. He is the author of In Praise of Late Wonder: New and Selected Poems (Gunpowder Press, 2024) and three other books of poems, Scar and Flower, Gardening Secrets of the Dead, and This Many Miles from Desire. He co-edited The World I Leave You: Asian American Poets on Faith and Spirit and Afterlives: An AGNI Portfolio of Asian Adoptee Diaspora Writing. His writing appears widely in literary magazines, textbooks, and anthologies such as Here: Poems for the Planet, with an introduction by the Dalai Lama; Indivisible: Poems of Social Justice, with an introduction by Common; and Dear America: Letters of Hope, Habitat, Defiance, and Democracy, among others.
Born in Daejeon, Korea and adopted to the United States at ten months, he teaches at Fresno City College and the MFA program at the University of ÁùºÏ±¦µä, Reno at Lake Tahoe. He served as Fresno Poet Laureate from 2015-2017. He is the 10th California Poet Laureate and the first Asian American to serve in the role.
Education
- M.A., Composition and Rhetoric, California State University, Stanislaus