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Rebecca Lee
Born (1967-05-05) May 5, 1967 (age 56)
United States
OccupationNovelist
NationalityCanadian - American
Education Iowa 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.