Ae Hee Lee is the author of two poetry chapbooks:
Bedtime || Riverbed (Compound Press, 2017) and
Dear bear, (Platypus Press, 2021). She holds an MFA from the University of Notre Dame and is a PhD candidate in Literature and Creative Writing at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Her work has been published or is forthcoming at the New England Review, Narrative, Denver Quarterly, Southeast Review, and POETRY among others. She has also received scholarships and awards from the Academy of American Poets, AWP, the Palm Beach Poetry Festival, and the Glen Workshop.
INTRODUCTION
It took me a while to realize reading and writing were just another way of listening and engaging in conversation with people (myself included!), ideas, and sounds. However, one of the things I love about paper is its boundless patience. It respects that every reader and writer has their own pace (some run, others wade). Therefore, if I were to offer some advice to my younger self, I would tell her i
(£13.99, 232pp, Ignota)
This is one of the strangest books I have ever read, and I am still not sure what to make of it. On one level (the more rational option) it is a post-apocalyptic science fiction novel which cleverly appropriates the medieval visions of Hildegard of Bingen as a framing device, using a belief system as the structure which underpins an industrial society that has fallen apart in the wake of both a pandemic and an occupation. Our lead character escapes the broken city, to escape an army she perceives as God and his angels, and heads for the hills. Here, with various adventures and encounters on her way, she finds a new place to live in a distant forest where she communes and finds union with nature and (a now pantheistic) God, embracing the light that now surrounds her.
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