David Dodd Lee

David Dodd Lee
Occupation	Author, poet, editor, professor
Nationality	American
Website
seventeenfingeredpoetrybird.blogspot.com

David Dodd Lee (born 1959) is an American poet and editor.

Biography

David Dodd Lee grew up in Michigan. He earned his undergraduate degree in painting and art history in 1986 and the MFA degree in Creative Writing in 1993, both from Western Michigan University. He is also a painter and collage artist. He is currently an assistant professor of Creative Writing at Indiana University at South Bend and lives on the banks of the St. Joseph River in northern Indiana.

Poetry and editing

Lee is the author of eight full-length books of poems and a chapbook. He has published poems in many literary journals including The Nation, Field, Denver Quarterly, CutBank, Gulf Coast, Green Mountains Review, Barrow Street, Cimarron Review, Pleiades, Chattahoochee Review, Diagram, Sycamore Review, Willow Springs, Quarterly West, Prairie Schooner, and American Literary Review. Also a fiction writer, his stories have appeared in Sou’wester, Green Mountains Review, West Branch, and other literary magazines.^[1]

Lee is the director of 42 Miles Press, which is based in the Department of English at Indiana University South Bend. He serves as the judge for the annual 42 Miles Press Poetry Award. Winners of the book award include Allan Peterson, Carrie Oeding, Erica Bernheim, Bill Rasmovicz, and Betsy Andrews. Lee is the editor of SHADE, an annual anthology published by Four Way Books, and the former poetry editor of Passages North and Third Coast. In addition he has guest edited recent editions of The Laurel Review (where he is an active contributing editor) and Passages North. He is also the editor of The Other Life, The Selected Poems of Herbert Scott, (Carnegie Mellon, 2010). Together with Donna Munro, he was editor of Half Moon Bay poetry chapbooks, which published titles by Franz Wright and Hugh Seidman, among others.

Bibliography

Poetry

Downsides of Fish Culture (New Issues Press, 1997)
Wilderness (March Street Press, 2000)
Arrow Pointing North (Four Way Books, 2002)
Abrupt Rural (New Issues Press, 2004)
The Nervous Filaments (Four Way Books, 2010)
Orphan, Indiana (University of Akron Press, 2010)
Sky Booths in the Breath Somewhere, the Ashbery Erasure Poems (BlazeVOX, 2010)
The Coldest Winter On Earth (Marick Press, 2012)
Animalities (Four Way Books, 2014) ISBN 978-1-935-53648-2

Anthologies

Shade 2004, Editor (Four Way Books, 2004)
Shade 2006, Editor (Four Way Books, 2006)
The Other Life: Selected Poems of Herbert Scott, Editor (Carnegie Mellon, 2010)

References

↑ "Faculty Biography". Indiana University South Bend. Retrieved 5 July 2015.

External links

Authority control	WorldCat Identities VIAF: 73470425

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