Helen Elaine Lee

Helen Elaine Lee grew up in Detroit, Michigan. She is a graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Law School. Her first novel, THE SERPENT'S GIFT, was published by Atheneum and her second novel, WATER MARKED, was published by Scribner. Her short stories have appeared in Ploughshares, Prairie Schooner, Callaloo, Hanging Loose, and Solstice Literary Magazine. She served on the PEN New England board and on its Freedom to Write Committee, and volunteered with its Prison Creative Writing Program, which she helped to establish. She has written about leading creative writing workshops in prison in a New York Times essay, “Visible Men”. Helen is Professor of Comparative Media Studies/Writing at MIT. Her new novel, POMEGRANATE, will be published on April 11 by Simon & Schuster's Atria Books.