Rebecca Lee (writer)

Rebecca Lee
Born (1967-05-05) May 5, 1967 (age 57)
United States
OccupationNovelist
NationalityCanadian - American
EducationIowa Writers' Workshop (MFA)
Notable worksBobcat and Other Stories

Rebecca Lee (born May 5, 1967) is an American novelist and professor.

She is the author of the novella The City Is a Rising Tide (2006) and the short story collection Bobcat and Other Stories (2013), which won the Believer Book Award.[1][2] Lee earned a MFA at the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop in 1992.[3] She is an associate professor at the University of North Carolina Wilmington.[4]

She has been awarded the Danuta Gleed Literary Award in 2012, the National Magazine Award for her short story "Fialta" in 2001, the Bunting Fellowship at Harvard University 2001-2002l and in 1997, the Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Award and the Michener Fellowship at the Iowa Writers' Workshop in 1997.[1]

Works

  • Bobcat and Other Stories (2013)
  • The City is a Rising Tide (2006)

References

  1. ^ Romm, Robin (19 July 2013). "Baser Instincts: Rebecca Lee's 'Bobcat'". New York Times. Retrieved 12 October 2014.
  2. ^ THE CITY IS A RISING TIDE | Kirkus Reviews.
  3. ^ "Faculty". uncw.edu. Retrieved 2017-10-02.
  4. ^ "Rebecca Lee". University of North Carolina Wilmington. Retrieved 12 October 2014.


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