Sueyeun Juliette Lee

• Name — Sueyeun Juliette Lee • Occupation — Author, poet, performer • Born — 1977 • Birthplace — Virginia • Education — University of Virginia (BA), Masters in Teaching

Lee was born in Virginia. Her parents were immigrant orphans and Korean war survivors. She earned a BA in English and a Master of Teaching from the University of Virginia, and a Master of Fine Arts in Poetry with an Advanced Feminist Studies Certificate from the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

Her first professional work was as a canvassing director for the Public Interest Research Groups. She also taught college and post-graduate writing, gender, and genre courses at University of the Arts and Richard Stockton College. Prior to working at TREC she was a program director at Chinook Fund. • Illustration — Lee at AWP 2026 Lee's poetry has a focus on "birthright, homeland, and identity." Her poetry analysis looks at multi-ethnic identities and how they shape the work they create. She created an installation and video work, Peace Light which was commissioned by Asian Arts Initiative in 2017 for their 25th anniversary. Her recent book Aerial Concave Without Cloud made Orion Magazine's 28 Recommended Collections. Lee was a coordinator for the 2014 National Asian American Theater Conference and Festival. She has consulted for the Smithsonian Institution’s Asian American Literature Festival as well as the Asian American Writers’ Workshop. She was a Pew Fellow in the Arts for Literature in 2013 and has held fellowships from Kunstnarhuset Messen and the Ucross Foundation. She edits Corollary Press, a poetry chapbook series she founded in 2006 which publishes "multi-ethnic innovative writing." In 2015 she held arts residencies in Norway and at Hafnarborg, The Hafnarfjördur Centre of Culture and Fine Art in Iceland.

Lee lives in Denver, Colorado.