Debbie Yee

Poet

San Francisco, CA

California US

Email:

debbie@linocat.com

Website:

www.linocat.com

Author's Bio

Debbie Yee is a lawyer‐poet and community organizer for the nonprofit literary and arts community. Her poems have
appeared variously, including The Best American Poetry 2009, 32 Poems and Fence. She is a Kundiman
fellow and graduate of U.C. Berkeley and U.C. Berkeley School of Law (Boalt Hall). In 2011, she was a recipient of a Cultural Equity Grant in literary arts from the San Francisco Arts Commission. Debbie lives quietly in San
Francisco her husband, daughter and snowshoe‐mix cat, where she is in‐house legal counsel for a national bank and teaches writing and printmaking.

Publications & Prizes

Anthologies:

Here is a Pen: An Anthology of West Coast Kundiman Poets (Achiote Press, 2009)

The Best American Poetry 2009 (Scribner, 2009)

12 Ways: An Anthology of the 2007 Intergenerational Writers Lab (Kearny Street Workshop Press, 2007)

Cheers to Muses: Contemporary Works by Asian American Women (Asian American Women Artists Association, 2007)

Journals:

32 Poems

Barn Owl Review

Bateau

Fence

MiPOesias

OCHO

Shampoo

The Broadsider

Prizes won:

Cultural Equity Grant in Literary Arts, San Francisco Arts Commission, 2011

More Information

Gives readings:

Yes

Travels for readings:

Yes

Identifies as:

Asian American

Born in:

Sacramento

Raised in:

Sacramento, CA

California

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Last update: Mar 05, 2012