University of North Carolina Wilmington
University of North Carolina Wilmington
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Department of
Creative Writing

 

 

Rebecca Lee, associate professor
Kenan Hall 1228 | 910.962.3266 | leer@uncw.edu

Rebecca Lee

 

Background

MFA, University of Iowa Writers' Workshop, 1992

BA, St. Olaf College, 1989

 

Lee City is a Rising Tide

Excerpt

From The City Is a Rising Tide (Simon & Schuster, 2006): Down at the Fulton Fish Market, a person could still buy the illegal eels pulled from the Hudson, eels that had evolved, in the last one or two hundred generations, an enzyme that resists the PCBs and that is, according to people who have a bent for this sort of thing, very tasty, laces the meat with a flavor that is, as Peter described it, woody and vibrant . . .

Download an excerpt of Rebecca Lee's work (pdf)

 

Publications

"Fialta," Zoetrope, May 2000

"The Banks of The Vistula," Atlantic Monthly, May 1997

"Min," Atlantic Monthly, 1995

"The Jerusalem Syndrome," Atlantic Monthly, November 1995

"Radioactive and Here to Stay," Outside, September 1994

"Slatland," Atlantic Monthly, December 1993

"Sailing The Brain," Chicago Tribune, September 1992


 


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