Biography
Lee Herrick was born in Daejeon, South Korea and adopted at ten months. He is the author of This Many Miles from Desire (WordTech Editions, 2007). His poems have been published in ZYZZYVA, Haight Ashbury Literary Journal, Berkeley Poetry Review, Hawaii Pacific Review, Many Mountains Moving, The Bloomsbury Review, MiPOesias, and others, including anthologies such as Seeds from a Silent Tree: Writings by Korean Adoptees, Hurricane Blues: Poems About Katrina and Rita, and Highway 99: A Literary Journey Through California's Great Central Valley, 2nd Edition. His essays have been published in Korean Quarterly and college textbooks, and he has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and was a 2000 Los Angeles Poetry Festival Award finalist. He is editor of New Truths: Writing in the 21st Century by Korean Adoptees, for Asian American Poery and Writing.
He has traveled throughout Latin America and Asia, backpacking through El Salvador, Honduras, Guatemala, Mexico, Belize, Peru, Bolivia, Cambodia, Thailand, South Korea, China, Viet Nam, and Laos. He has given readings at venues in Korea and across the United States, including New York City, Chicago, Minneapolis, El Paso, Los Angeles, Fresno, Berkeley, and San Francisco.
He received his Master's Degree in Composition and Rhetoric from California State University, Stanislaus and served on the Board of Directors of the English Council of California Two-Year Colleges for six years, and he is the founding editor of the literary magazine, In the Grove. He teaches at Fresno City College in California.
