Love Imagined

Sherry Quan Lee, MFA, University of Minnesota, and Distinguished Alumna, North Hennepin Community College, is the editor of "How Dare We! Write: a multicultural creative writing discourse". Her most recent book, "Love Imagined: a mixed race memoir" was a 2015 Minnesota Book Award Finalist. Previous books include "Chinese Blackbird," a memoir in verse, "How to Write a Suicide Note: serial essays that saved a woman's life," and a chapbook, "A Little Mixed Up."
Quan Lee was a selected participant for the Loft Literary Center Asian Inroads Program, and later was the Loft mentor for the same program. Previously, she was the Writer to Writer mentor for SASE: the write place, at Intermedia Arts. Also, she was the 2015-2016 Loft Literary Center's Mentors Series poetry mentor.

She was the Asian American Renaissance, Artist and Youth Program Manager and a volunteer editor for: Body of Stories, the fifth journal of the Asian American Renaissance, and Spirits, Myths and Dreams: Stories in Transit, the fourth journal of the Asian American Renaissance.

She has recently retired as an adjunct creative writing instructor at Metropolitan State University, St. Paul, MN, and has taught creative writing at St. Catherine University.
Follow her on the site blog.sherryquanlee.com.

Love Imagined is an American woman's unique struggle for identity.

Finalist - 27th annual Minnesota Book Awards (Memoir & Creative Nonfiction)

"Joining the long history of women of color fighting to claim literary space to tell our stories,
Sherry Quan Lee shares her truth with fierce courage and strength in Love Imagined. ... Quan Lee
crafts a riveting tale of Minnesota life set within the backdrop of racial segregation,
the Cold War, the sexual revolution while navigating it all through the lens of her multi-layered
identities. A true demonstration of the power of an intersectional perspective."

--Kandace Creel Falcón, Ph.D., Director of Women's and Gender Studies, Minnesota State University, Moorhead


"Love Imagined: this fascinating, delightful, important book. This imagining love, this
longing for love. This poverty of No Love, this persistent racism, sexism, classism, ageism.
The pain these evils cause the soul...This is an important document of a mixed-race
contemporary woman, a memoir about her family lineages back to slavery, back to China, back to
early Minneapolis, and about the struggle of finding herself in all of these."

--Sharon Doubiago, author of My Father's Love


"When I read Sherry's story [Love Imagined], I recognized feelings and meanings that
mirrored mine. I felt a sense of release, an exhale, and I knew I could be understood by her
in a way that some of my family and friends are unable to grasp, through no fault of their own.
It's the Mixed experience. Sherry Lee's voice, her story, will no doubt touch and heal many who read
it."

--Lola Osunkoya, MA Founder of Neither/Both LLC, Mixed-Race Community Building and Counseling



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BIO002000 Biography & Autobiography: Cultural Heritage

SOC028000 Social Science: Women's Studies - General

SOC001000 Social Science: Ethnic Studies - African American Studies