The Richard L. Thomas Professorship with the Department of English welcomes poet and writer Lee Horikoshi Roripaugh to Kenyon.
Lee Horikoshi Roripaugh is a biracial Nisei and the author of five volumes of poetry, most recently "tsunami vs. the fukushima 50" (Milkweed Editions, 2019), named a “Best Book of 2019” by the New York Public Library and listed as a poetry finalist in the 2020 Lambda Literary Awards. Her fiction collection, "Reveal Codes," winner of the Moon City Press Short Fiction Award, was published by Moon City Press in 2023, and their chapbook, "#stringofbeads," a winner of the Diode Chapbook Competition, was published by Diode Press in 2023. Her book of lyric essays, "unMothered, unTongued," was recently named winner of the Sue William Silverman Prize for Creative Nonfiction in the 2024 AWP Award Series and will be forthcoming from the University of Georgia Press.
Horikoshi Roripaugh received the Association of Asian American Studies Book Award in Poetry/Prose for 2004, and was a 1998 winner of the National Poetry Series. Seven of their essays have been listed as Notable Essays in Best American Essays, and her poetry, fiction, and essays have appeared in the Kenyon Review, Virginia Quarterly Review, American Poetry Review, Story Magazine, Terrain.org, Hotel Amerika, and North American Review, among others.
Please join us in the Cheever Room, located in Finn House, on Tuesday, April 22, at 5 p.m.