Lisa Lee is the the author of AMERICAN HAN: a novel (forthcoming from Algonquin/Little Brown/Hachette in spring 2026).

Lisa is the recipient of the 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 other fellowships and awards from Kundiman, Millay Arts, Hedgebrook, the Rona Jaffe Foundation, Tin House, Jentel Artist Residency, Vermont Studio Center, Summer Literary Seminars, the Korea Foundation, Korean Studies Institute, East Asian Studies Center, Inprint, CRAFT, and elsewhere. Her work has appeared in Ploughshares, VIDA, 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.”

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Lisa holds a PhD in Creative Writing and Literature from the University of Southern California. Previously, she received an MFA from the University of Houston, 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.

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