23 Jun Announcing the 2023 JBLC Poetry Fellow

We are thrilled to announce the winner of the 2023 Poetry Fellowship: Ae Hee Lee. Born in South Korea and raised in Peru, Ae Hee Lee’s debut poetry collection ASTERISM was selected by John Murillo for the 2022 Dorset Prize and out from Tupelo Press. She is the author of poetry chapbooks Bedtime || Riverbed (Compound Press 2017), Dear bear, (Platypus Press 2021), and Connotary (Frost Place Chapbook Competition Winner, Bull City Press 2021).

Ae Hee is a recipient of a James Olney Award by The Southern Review, Adroit Journal Gregory Djanikian Scholar in Poetry, and Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowship Finalist. She has also received scholarships and awards from the Academy of American Poets, AWP, Bread Loaf, the Palm Beach Poetry Festival, and Gasher Journal, among others.

In addition to naming Ae Hee Lee as winner, five poets were recognized as finalists from the pool of over 100 applicants. The 2023 finalists (in alphabetical order) are: Chaun Ballard, Sneha Subramanian Kanta, Emily Lee Luan, Sara Mae, and Dior Stephens.

The Just Buffalo Literary Center Poetry Fellowship seeks to advance the career of an individual poet as well as raising Buffalo’s visibility nationwide as a literary city. More information about the fellowship can be found here.