About

Margaret Rhee is a poet, scholar, and media artist. She is the author of Love, Robot (The Operating System, 2017), which received the Best Poetry Book Award from the Association for Asian American Studies in 2019. Her scholarly monograph Machine Dreams: Race, Robots, and the Asian American Body and her lyrical essay and art book, Poetry Machines: Letters to Future Readers, are both under contract with Duke University Press. Her art installations include The Kimchi Poetry Machine, exhibited in the Electronic Literature Collection Volume 3, and The Afro-Asian Poetic Pantry, exhibited at MoCADA’s Abolition House. She received her PhD from the University of California, Berkeley, in Ethnic Studies, with a designated emphasis in New Media Studies. She was the Fellow in Digital Practice in the English Department at Harvard University, a Distinguished Visiting Writer at Cornell College, and has taught at the University of Oregon and SUNY Buffalo. Currently, she is an assistant professor in the Department of Media Studies and chair of the art writing concentration in the Creative Writing MFA program at The New School. She is based in New York City.