Wayne Lee

Poet

Santa Fe, NM
New Mexico US
Email: 
wayneleesantafe@gmail.com
Website: 
wayneleepoet.com

Author's Bio

Writer, editor and teacher Wayne Lee (wayneleepoet.com) lives in Santa Fe, NM. Lee’s poems have appeared in Tupelo Press, Slipstream, The New Guard, The Lowestoft Chronicle, Writer’s Digest and other journals and anthologies. He was awarded the 2012 Fischer Prize and has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and three Best of the Net Awards. His collection The Underside of Light was a finalist for the 2014 New Mexico/Arizona Book Award. His chapbook Buddha’s Cat was published by Whistle Lake Press in May 2024. His memoir Service Husband: A Caregiver’s Journey Through Disability, Suicide and Recovery is forthcoming from Mercury Heartlink in 2024 and his collection Dining on Salt: Four Seasons of Septets is forthcoming from Cornerstone Press in 2025. Lee is the founder and host of the online Tuesday Poetry Practice community.

Education: 
Western Washington University MFA
Writers Retreats: 
Taos Writers Conference

Publications & Prizes

Books:
Googling a Present Participle: Poems, Prose Poems, Bogus Monologues & Fraudulent Artifacts (Aldrich Press, 2015)
,
The Underside of Light (Kelsay Books, 2013)
Prizes won: 

Fischer Poetry Prize, 2012

SICA Poems for Peace Poetry Prize, 2012

Santa Fe Reporter War and Peace Poetry Contest, 2006

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Personal Favorites

Favorite authors: 
Dylan Thomas E.E. Cummings Mary Oliver Jane Hirschfield Kazuo Ishiguro Haruki Murakami Sherman Alexie Joy Harjo Anthony Doerr Jhumpa Lahiri W.S. Merwin Louise Gluck Gary Snyder Kurt Vonnegut David Mitchell Wendell Berry Pema Chodron Joanna Macy William Faulkner D.H. Lawrence
What I'm reading now: 
Holding the Note by David Remnick, Summoned by the Earth by Cynthia Jurs

More Information

Gives readings: 
Yes
Travels for readings: 
Yes
Identifies as: 
American
Prefers to work with: 
Any
Fluent in: 
English
Born in: 
Abbotsford, BC
Canada
British Columbia
Raised in: 
Bellingham, WA
Washington
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Last update: Jun 28, 2024