Sueyeun Juliette Lee

Sueyeun Juliette Lee (born 1977) is a Korean American video artist and poet. She is a Senior Associate at Training Resources for the Environmental Community (TREC), co-directing its organizational development strategy.

Early life and education Lee was born in Virginia. She earned a BA in English and a Master of Teaching from the University of Virginia, and a Master of Fine Arts in Poetry with an Advanced Feminist Studies Certificate from the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Her poetry analysis looks at multi-ethnic identities and how they shape the work they create. She created an installation and video work, Peace Light which was commissioned by Asian Arts Initiative in 2017 for their 25th anniversary. Her recent book Aerial Concave Without Cloud made Orion Magazine's 28 Recommended Collections.

Lee was a coordinator for the 2014 National Asian American Theater Conference and Festival. She has consulted for the Smithsonian Institution’s Asian American Literature Festival as well as the Asian American Writers’ Workshop. She was a Pew Fellow in the Arts for Literature in 2013 and has held fellowships from Kunstnarhuset Messen and the Ucross Foundation.

She edits Corollary Press, a poetry chapbook series she founded in 2006 which publishes "multi-ethnic innovative writing." In 2015 she held arts residencies in Norway and at Hafnarborg, The Hafnarfjördur Centre of Culture and Fine Art in Iceland.

Personal life Lee lives in Denver, Colorado.