"Art hurts. Art urges voyages -
and it is easier to stay at home,
the nice beer ready."
       -Gwendolyn Brooks

But easy is neither the point nor the goal. Professor Wee is the author of Uncertain Grace, a collection of poems which received the 2000 Hayden Carruth Award for New and Emerging Poets and was published in 2001 by Copper Canyon Press. In 2003 she was chosen by U.S. Poet Laureate Billy Collins to receive one of two annual Witter Bynner fellowships in poetry, supported by the Library of Congress and the Witter Bynner Foundation for Poetry.

At Augustana she teaches composition, literature, and poetry workshops, as well as independent and directed studies in poetry and creative writing. With Professor Ann Boaden she meets weekly with the student group, After Hours Poetry and Fiction, and she serves as faculty advisor for UNYK, Augustana's Multicultural Dance Troupe. From 2003-2005 Wee will serve as the second Poet Laureate of the Quad Cities.