Lee Ann Roripaugh

Lee Ann Roripaugh (she/they) is a bi-racial Nisei and the author of five volumes of poetry, most recently tsunami vs. the fukushima 50 (Milkweed Editions, 2019), which was named a Best Book of 2019 by the New York Public Library, selected as a poetry finalist in the 2020 Lambda Literary Awards, cited as a Society of Midland Authors 2020 Honoree in Poetry, and named one of the 50 Must-Read Poetry Collections in 2019 by Book Riot. Her collection of fiction, Reveal Codes, was selected as winner of the Moon City Short Fiction Award and was published by Moon City Press in late 2023, and their chapbook, #stringofbeads, a winner in the Diode Editions Chapbook Contest, was released by Diode Press in 2023. She was named winner of the Association for Asian American Studies Book Award in Poetry/Prose for 2004, and she was a 1998 winner of the National Poetry Series. The South Dakota State poet laureate from 2015 to 2019, Roripaugh is a professor of English at the University of South Dakota, where they serve as editor in chief of South Dakota Review.