Lisa Lee’s work has appeared in Ploughshares, VIDA, North American Review, Sycamore Review, Gulf Coast, the Bitch Media podcast, The Tusculum Review, Reed Magazine, Pebble Lake Review, New World Writing, and elsewhere. She has been named an Emerging Writer Fellow at The Center for Fiction and her novel excerpt “Paradise Cove” was awarded a Pushcart Prize. Lisa has received fellowships and awards from Kundiman, Millay Arts, Jentel Artist Residency, Vermont Studio Center, Summer Literary Seminars, The Korea Foundation, Korean Studies Institute, East Asian Studies Center, Inprint Foundation, CRAFT, the First Pages Prize, and other organizations.

Lisa recently completed a PhD in Creative Writing and Literature at 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 is finishing a novel, Top Girl, about inherited trauma, class and gender expectations, and toxic masculinity, in particular Korean American masculinity, violence, and police brutality.