Biography
Seoul, South Korea (Photo by Lee Herrick)
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 the 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 the new edition of Highway 99: A Literary Journey Through California's Great Central Valley, forthcoming from Heyday Books in Fall 2007. His essays have been published in Korean Quarterly and Visions Across the Americas, and he is co-authoring a composition textbook called Outside In: Writing to and From the Center, forthcoming from Prentice Hall. He has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and was a 2000 Los Angeles Poetry Festival Award finalist.
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 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.
