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BIO for Jeffrey Ethan Lee

Lee's poetry book, identity papers (Ghost Road Press, 2006) was a 2007 Colorado Book Award finalist. His first poetry book, invisible sister (Many Mountains Moving Press, 2004) was praised in American Book Review, North American Review, Rain Taxi Review etc. Lee won the 2002 Sow's Ear Poetry Chapbook prize for The Sylf (2003), created identity papers for Drimala Records, published Strangers in a Homeland (chapbook with Ashland Poetry Press, 2001). He also published hundreds of poems, stories and essays in Many Mountains Moving, North American Review, African American Review, American Poetry Review, Xconnect, Crazyhorse, Washington Square, & Other Voices. He won the first Tupelo Press award for literary fiction in 2001 for a novel, The Autobiography of Somebody Else. He is the senior poetry editor for Many Mountains Moving.

He teaches creative writing now at West Chester University. He has a Ph.D. in British Romanticism and an MFA from NYU.

Order identity papers now from Ghost Road Press
identity papers
Jeffrey Ethan Lee
Trade Paperback
ISBN 0-9789456-1-1
$14.95

Bookstores that carry identity papers:

Robins Bookstore in center city Philadelphia at 108 S. 13th St. 215 735 9600 (Philadelphia's oldest independent bookstore).

Joseph Fox Bookshop, 1724 Sansom Street., Phila. PA 19103

Barnes and Noble on Rittenhouse Square in center city Philadelphia, 1805 Walnut St. (Ask for the autographed copies!)

Barnes and Noble College Bookstores at Drexel University, Phila. The Drexel University Bookstore is on the first floor of MacAlister Building which is located on the corner of 33rd and Chestnut Streets.

Jeffrey Ethan Lee is available for readings, workshops, visiting writer presentations etc. This book has been adopted for poetry classes at the Honors College of Drexel University, the Honors College of Penn State Erie, SUNY Albany, LeMoyne College, and elsewhere.

And More Thanks to some of the many people who have helped this book/this performance:

Many thanks are due to actress Kate Gorski and percussionist Ollie Moore for several performances of the work.

Thanks also to Professor Lynn Levin and her students at Drexel University for having me as a guest 08/13/07.

Thanks also to new friends and old students who have shared this work with friends and colleagues, especially Miriam Kotzin, Sandra Kohler, and Nathan Fuhr.

Thanks also to Doug Ovens, Amy Bauer, Philip Lakin and the Muhlenberg faculty who helped support the performance of this work, Spring 2008.

Thanks also to the Colorado Center for the Book for doing all the work that they do for the Colorado Book Awards.

Updated 11/07/2008 by Jeffrey Ethan Lee