LISA LEE recently finished her MFA in nonfiction at the University of Houston. She received a BA in Music and English from UC Berkeley and a JD in Public Interest Social Justice Law from Santa Clara University. She is the former nonfiction editor of Gulf Coast and taught literature and creative writing at the University of Houston as a teaching fellow. She was the recipient of the Barthelme Fellowship in Fiction 2008, runner-up for the Diana P. Hobby Prize in Fiction 2009, and runner-up for the Barthelme Fellowship in Nonfiction 2009. She was awarded the Kundiman Asian American Poetry Fellowship in 2010 and a fellowship to Summer Literary Seminars as a finalist in the 2010 Unified Literary Contest in fiction. Her work has appeared in Gulf Coast, The Tusculum Review, Pebble Lake Review, and Reed Magazine.
Her essay, “Dear Mary Wang,” appeared in Issue 22.2-Summer/Fall 2010.
