Sherry Quan Lee

MFA, 1996, University of Minnesota, and first year Cave Canem participant 1996. She is the author of Love Imagined: a mixed race memoir; a Minnesota Book Award Finalist 2015, Modern History Press, Ann Arbor, MI, and How to Write a Suicide Note: serial essays that saved a woman's life, 2008, and Chinese Blackbird, memoir in verse, 2002. Lee approaches writing as a community resource and as culturally based art of an ordinary everyday practical aesthetic. Retired from teaching Creative Writing at Metropolitan State University, Saint Paul, MN, she continues to mentor. Lee is the literary editor of How Dare We! Write, 24 writers of color share the challenges they face(d) as writers, why they continue to write, and how they find ways to make their writing available. Each writer shares a writing exercise. HDWW, Modern History Press, 2017, is a required text in some college writing classrooms. Lee’s most recent book, And You Can Love Me: a story for everyone who loves someone with ASD, a picture book, is based on her grandson Ethan. Forthcoming, March 2021, is Septuagenarian: love is what happens when I die, a book of poetry, love not imagined, and Lee’s literary swan song.