May Lee-Yang, also known as May Lee (RPA: Mev Lis Yaj, Pahawh: 𖬉𖬦 𖬃𖬰𖬞 𖬖𖬰𖬤), is a Hmong American playwright, poet, prose writer, performance artist and community activist in Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States.
[1] Her theater-based works include Confessions of a Lazy Hmong Woman, Sia(b), Ten Reasons Why I'd Be a Bad Porn Star, Stir-Fried Pop Culture, and The Child's House.
Her writing has appeared in the Paj Ntaub Voice Hmong literary journal, The Saint Paul Almanac (Arcata Press), Cheers to Muses: Contemporary Works by Asian American Women (Asian American Women Association), To Sing Along the Way: Minnesota Women Poets From Pre-Territorial Days to the Present (New Rivers Press), Fiction on a Stick (Milkweed Editions) Unarmed, the Bamboo Among the Oaks anthology (Borealis Press), Water~Stone Literary Review (Hamline University), Sounds In This House: An Anthology from the National Book Foundation Writing Camp (National Book Foundation", and Hmong Movement.
Text by Lee-Yang accompanies light box-mounted photography by Pao Houa Her at Hmongtown Marketplace, Saint Paul, Minnesota.
(Free Inspiring Rising Elements) and performed regularly at several Minnesota venues including the Fringe Festival, Intermedia Arts, Hmong Fest, Patrick’s Cabaret, the Loft Literary Center, and local universities and colleges.