Lee Herrick

Lee Herrick is the California Poet Laureate. He is the author of In Praise of Late Wonder: New and Selected Poems (Gunpowder Press, 2024) and three other books of poems, Scar and Flower, Gardening Secrets of the Dead, and This Many Miles from Desire. His writing appears widely, in Here: Poems for the Planet, with an introduction by the Dalai Lama; Indivisible: Poems of Social Justice, with an introduction by Common; and Dear America: Letters of Hope, Habitat, Defiance, and Democracy, among others. Born in Daejeon, Korea and adopted to the United States at ten months, he lives and teaches in Fresno, California. He is the 10th California Poet Laureate, the first to be officially reappointed to a second-term, and the first Asian American to serve in the role.