Photography by Traci Bartlow

William Poy Lee graduated with a Bachelors of Architecture, emphasis on urban design and planning from the University of California in Berkeley and completed his juris doctor degree from Hastings College of the Law, University of California. He has been a licensed California attorney since 1979 and has enjoyed a career as an international banking attorney with Bank of America and as an advertising co-principal serving Fortune 100 corporations. He now lives in Berkeley, California. The Eighth Promise is his first book.

William Poy Lee has been selected as a winner of the 17th Annual PEN Oakland-Josephine Miles Annual National Literary Awards for 2007 for his book The Eighth Promise: An American Son's Tribute to His Toisanese Mother. National in scope, the PEN Oakland-Josephine Miles Literary Awards represent a new perception of multicultural literature that does not seek validation from the literary establishment, but creates its own standards and models of literature.

Interviews

http://thestory.org/archive/the_story_286_William_Lee.mp3/view

http://www.will.uiuc.edu/AM/aftmag/archives/07/070618.htm