Karen An-hwei Lee (born 1973) is an American poet.

Born in 1973, and raised in Massachusetts, Lee is a Chinese American poet, translator, and critic.

A former resident writing fellow at the MacDowell Colony for the Arts in Peterborough, New Hampshire and the Millay Colony for the Arts in Austerlitz, New York, Lee resided in Santa Ana, California.

[3] Her first poetry book, In Medias Res: a primer of experience in approximate alphabetical order, was selected by poet Heather McHugh and published by Sarabande Books in 2004.

Lee received six Pushcart Prize nominations, a National Endowment for the Arts Grant,[4] the Poetry Society of America's Norma Farber First Book Award, the Kathryn A. Morton Prize for Poetry from Sarabande Books, and the July Open sponsored by Tupelo Press.