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Debbie Yee [1]

Listed as: 
Poet
Public address: 
San Francisco, CA
California US
Email: 
debbie@linocat.com
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.

Gives readings: 
Yes
Travels for readings: 
Yes
Born in: 
Sacramento
Raised in: 
Sacramento, CA
California
Website: 
https://www.linocat.com [2]
Prizes won: 

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

Identifies as: 
Asian American

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