Priscilla Lee
Poet, writer, and technical communicator based in San Francisco.
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About Priscilla Lee
Priscilla Lee is the author of Wishbone and Chiu’s House of Lovely Animals. Her awards include a Poetry Book Award from the Association for Asian American Studies, the Emily Chamberlain Cook Poetry Prize from UC Berkeley, a Greg Grummer Literary Award from Phoebe, and the San Francisco Foundation’s James D. Phelan Literary Award.
Her poems have appeared in Ploughshares, The Kenyon Review, ZYZZYVA, Poetry Foundation, and numerous anthologies. Her work moves through Chinese American family history, San Francisco neighborhoods, memory, food, music, ritual, and myth.
Alongside her literary career, Lee has worked for more than two decades in technical communication, including extensive work for Google and Oracle.