Sherry Quan Lee, MFA, taught Creative Writing at Saint Catherine University and Metropolitan State University. She is author of Chinese Blackbird, a memoir in verse; How to Write a Suicide Note: Serial Essays that Saved a Woman’s Life; Love Imagined: a Mixed Race Memoir, a 2015 Minnesota Book Award Finalist; How Dare We! Write: a Multicultural Creative Writing Discourse (updated edition 2022); And You Can Love Me: a story for anyone who loves someone with ASD, and Septuagenarian: love is what happens when I die. She was a poetry mentor for the 2015-2016 Loft Literary Center’s Series in Poetry and Creative Prose. Her essay, “Discomfort Zone, Minnesota Born and Raised,” is included in the anthology A Good Time for the Truth, Minnesota Historical Society Press.