Li-Young Lee is an acclaimed American poet whose works include The Invention of the Darling (W. W. Norton, 2024), The Undressing (W. W. Norton, 2018), Behind My Eyes (W. W. Norton, 2008), and most recently, the chapbook I Ask My Mother to Sing. His earlier collections are Book of My Nights (BOA Editions, 2001); Rose (BOA, 1986), winner of the Delmore Schwartz Memorial Poetry Award from New York University; The City in Which I Love You (BOA, 1990), the 1990 Lamont Poetry Selection; and a memoir entitled The Winged Seed: A Remembrance (Simon and Schuster, 1995), which received an American Book Award from the Before Columbus Foundation and was reissued by BOA Editions in 2012. Born in Jakarta, Indonesia, and raised in Pennsylvania, Li-Young Lee attended the University of Pittsburgh, the University of Arizona, and the State University of New York Brockport. Lee has taught at universities including Northwestern University and the University of Iowa. He lives in Chicago with his wife, Donna, and their two sons.