Ae Hee Lee (born in Pohang) is a Korean-American poet. In 2021, her chapbook Connotary won the Frost Place Chapbook Competition. ^[1] The following year, she won the Dorset Prize for Asterism, which was published by Tupelo Press in 2024. ^{[2] [3] [4]}

Lee was born in South Korea and raised in Peru. ^{[2] [4]} In 2017, she earned a Master of Fine Arts in creative writing from Notre Dame University, from which she received an Academy of American Poets Prize. She later earned a Doctor of Philosophy in literature and creative writing from the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee. ^[1] While there, she was associate editor of the Cream City Review. ^[5]

Her work has appeared in The Adroit Journal, ^[6] Michigan Quarterly Review, Narrative, ^[7] The Georgia Review, ^[8] The Rumpus, ^[9] and The Southern Review. ^[10]

As of 2024, Lee lives in Wisconsin. ^[2]

• Connotary (Bull City Press, ISBN  978-1-949344-28-8) ^[11]
• Dear bear (Platypus Press, 2021)
• Asterism (Tupelo Press, 2023) ^{[12] [13]}