Lisa Lee is the the author of AMERICAN HAN: a novel (out March 31, 2026 from Algonquin/Little Brown/Hachette).

Lee is the recipient of the 2023 Marianne Russo Emerging Writer Award from the Key West Literary Seminar, an Emerging Writer Fellowship from the Center for Fiction, and a Pushcart Prize. She has received additional fellowships and awards from Kundiman, Millay Arts, Hedgebrook, the Rona Jaffe Foundation, Tin House, Jentel Artist Residency, the Korea Foundation, and others. Her work has appeared in Ploughshares, VIDA: Women in Literary Arts, North American Review, Sycamore Review, Gulf Coast, Tusculum Review, Reed Magazine, New World Writing, and elsewhere. Her essay on racial invisibility and erasure in the writing workshop was featured on Bitch Media’s feminism & pop culture podcast Popaganda, on the episode “Writing About Race.”

Lee holds an MFA from the University of Houston and a PhD in Creative Writing and Literature from the University of Southern California. She received a B.A. from U.C. Berkeley in English and Music, and a J.D. from Santa Clara University in Public Interest and Social Justice Law. She has taught courses in writing, literature, and digital humanities at the University of Southern California and the University of Houston.

Lee lives in Los Angeles and grew up in Napa, California.