{"id":12188,"date":"2023-04-11T13:44:41","date_gmt":"2023-04-11T18:44:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/english\/?p=12188"},"modified":"2026-03-22T16:04:30","modified_gmt":"2026-03-22T21:04:30","slug":"distance-can-be-a-source-of-productive-creativity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/english\/distance-can-be-a-source-of-productive-creativity\/","title":{"rendered":"Distance can be a source of productive creativity"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/109\/2019\/03\/Lee_20190227_PA_GRAD_041B-1.jpg\" alt=\"Ae Hee Lee\" class=\"wp-image-7554\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-ae-hee-lee-21-phd-in-creative-writing\">Ae Hee Lee, &#8217;21 PhD in Creative Writing<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Update<\/strong>: <span style=\"color: #993300\">Ae Hee&#8217;s forthcoming book <em>Asterism<\/em> (Tupelo Press) was selected as the winner of the 2022 Dorset Prize<\/span>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the context of globalization, the rising awareness of the world as an interconnected place, my poetry seeks to explore writing across languages and creative translation; it engages with the multiplicity of identity, with cross-cultural experience and communication.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I am working on a lyrical and semi-autobiographical collection of poetry situated in different times and places I have lived in: mainly localities within South Korea, Peru, and the United States. I view the distance I have experienced not simply as a confession of alienation but as a powerful source of critical reflection and creativity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I ask questions about how private histories interweave with public ones and how they can influence each other: What does it mean to be a citizen? What is one\u2019s place in culture? How do culture and nation influence one\u2019s life? How do we change history?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The poems in my collection move across languages and selves, and ultimately challenge traditional ways of understanding otherness, belonging, and love between people of differing cultural backgrounds. Inspired by Gloria Anzaldua\u2019s notion of the \u201cnew mestiza,\u201d I am not interested in binaries. I am interested in complications and in-between spaces. 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