Sherry Quan Lee's Biography

SHERRY QUAN LEE, author of Chinese Blackbird (an underground favorite), Asian American Renaissance, 2002, approaches writing as a community resource and as culturally based art of an ordinary everyday practical aesthetic. She is a Distinguished Alumni of North Hennepin Community College. Currently, she is the Program Associate for the Split Rock Arts Program summer workshops and the Online Mentoring for Writers Program at the University of Minnesota where she also earned her MFA in Creative Writing.    Recently retired from ten years of teaching Creative Writing at Metropolitan State University, Saint Paul, Minnesota, Quan Lee facilitates community workshops at Intermedia Arts, and elsewhere.  She was a first year, 1996, participant of Cave Canem, a writing retreat for black poets.