Lee Anderson (they/them) is a trans writer who believes all writers benefit from studying all genres (and pieces outside hard genre limits), but mostly writes nonfiction. You can find their work anthologized in the Best American Food and Travel Writing 2025 and published in Aquifer, Brevity, The Rumpus, and elsewhere. They are the Managing Editor for Half Mystic, an Assistant Editor for Best of the Net Awards, and on the Editorial Board for Sundress Publications, among other literary community-building work.
Lee has an MFA in Creative Writing from Northern Arizona University. At NAU, they were the Managing Editor of Thin Air Magazine. In 2021, they were nominated for a Best of the Net award in nonfiction and received two Pushcart Prize nominations in 2022. They were the inaugural Writer-in-Residence of the Mountain Words Writer-in-Residence program in nonfiction in Crested Butte, CO in 2021, and a participant in the Kenyon Review Writers’ Workshop in 2022.
Currently, they are working on two hybrid, speculative projects: a novel about queer phenomenology, social alienation, lesbian breakups, and citrus; and a road trip style memoir reflecting, centering, and splitting off from personal and communal griefs, including their transition and their father’s death three years after they started transitioning.
In a perfect world, they would be a science communicator, queer counselor, neuroscientist, book and literary magazine publisher, tarot reader, full-time writer, and still have time to people-watch in museums. For now, they are living with their fiancée Emily and cat Pretzel in Chicago, IL, where you can find them drinking delightful coffees and thinking about mountains.
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