Jeffrey Lee, Ph.D.

Adjunct Assistant Professor

Office: 0032C MacAlister Hall
Phone: (215) 895-6487
Email: jel53@drexel.edu

Education

• Ph.D., British Romanticism, New York University, 1995
• M.F.A., Poetry, New York University, 2000

Biography

I am currently writing a poetry book on the themes of awakenings, scenes of enlightenment, and/or dreams about what gets in the way of spiritual awakening. I am also working on a memoir, parts of which have been published. I became the senior poetry editor, publisher etc. of Many Mountains Moving Press and Many Mountains Moving: a literary journal of diverse contemporary voices by accident; after the founder in Colorado resigned for health reasons at the end of 2004, which was six months after she had published my first book, it appeared that the press would die, the journal would die, and my book would, too. So a few friends and I volunteered to save it and keep it going. Today, the press and the journal are doing pretty well.

Publications

• identity papers, Ghost Road Press, 2006. A finalist for the Colorado Book Award for poetry.
• invisible sister, Many Mountains Moving Press, 2004. Finalist for the first MMM Poetry Book Prize.
• The Sylf, Sow’s Ear Press, 2003. Winner of the 2002 Poetry Chapbook Prize.
• identity papers, Drimala Records audio CD, nominated for a Grammy in 2002.
• Strangers in a Homeland, Ashland Poetry Press, 2001.