Lee Herrick is the Fresno Poet Laureate and the author of  Gardening Secrets of the Dead and This Many Miles from Desire. His poems have appeared in The Bloomsbury Review, ZYZZYVA, Highway 99: A Literary Journey Through California’s Great Central Valley, 2nd edition, Indivisible: Poems of Social Justice, and the first anthology of Korean adoptee writing, Seeds from a Silent Tree, among others. Born in Daejeon, South Korea and adopted at ten months old, he lives in Fresno, California with his wife and daughter. He teaches at Fresno City College and in the low-residency MFA Program at Sierra Nevada College. (photo credit: Joel Pickford)

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