Rebecca Lee (born May 5, 1967) is a short story writer, novelist, and professor, originally from Canada and now living in the USA. She is known for her debut collection Bobcat and Other Stories, which won the Believer Book Award and the Danuta Gleed Literary Award. She has also won the National Magazine Award and been shortlisted for The Story Prize.
Lee's first book was the novella The City Is a Rising Tide (2006). Set in New York in the 1990s, the central character, Justine Laxness, works for a non-profit organisation setting up a retreat in China, where she lived with her missionary parents as a child. After personal and professional setbacks, she starts to embezzle money from this organisation to help an ex-boyfriend, James Nutter, make a hopelessly uncommercial but beautiful film.[9][10][11]
Lee published short stories in literary journals, including Atlantic Monthly[12][13][14] and Zoetrope: All-Story,[15] for two decades before bringing out her first collection.[8] One of these stories, "Fialta", won a National Magazine Award in 2001.[16] The story is set at an artists' colony in Wisconsin, reminiscent of Taliesin.[17] Lee has said that this story was a result of Francis Ford Coppola contacting her to ask her to write a story about young lovers whose love is thwarted by an authority figure.[18]
Lee's first collection, Bobcat and Other Stories, was published in Canada in 2012 and in the US in 2013. It contains stories written over a span of twenty years.[19] The collection won the 2012 Danuta Gleed Literary Award.[20] It was a finalist for the 2014 The Story Prize.[21] It won the Believer Book Award.[22]
↑ "Campus Communique: the official bulletin of UNCW". University of North Carolina Wilmington (archived). Retrieved March 26, 2025. Lee IS the 1998 recipient of the James Michener Fellowship. Three of her short stories, "Min." "Shatland" and "The Banks of the Vistula." were published in Atlauue Monthly. The latter story received a highly praised performance on NalKinal Public Radio's "Selected Shorts" in 1997. A graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop, Lee previously taught at the University of Wisconsin and University of Iowa.
1 2 "Rebecca Lee". Harvard Radcliffe Institute. Retrieved March 26, 2025.
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