| Rebecca Lee | |
| Birth Date: | 5 May 1967 |
| Birth Place: | United States |
| Occupation: | Novelist |
| Nationality: | Canadian - American |
| Education: | Iowa Writers' Workshop (MFA) |
| Notableworks: | Bobcat 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.http://uncw.edu/writers/faculty/lee.html