Lee Winter (born in Christchurch, New Zealand)[1] is the pen name[2] of an Australian journalist and novelist specializing in lesbian fiction.
Lee Winter spent her early years growing up on the Gold Coast, Queensland,[3] before her family moved to Brisbane.
[10] Writing for Autostraddle, Christina Tucker said of the book, "If you have ever known the joy and the pain of being totally head-over-heels invested in a slow burn, incomplete fanfic, then The Fixer is for you, I promise.
[4] That same year, Winter released another novel, Chaos Agent, which Tucker said "surprised [her] with its smart and heartfelt combination of questions about morality and ethics, as it concluded the story that began in The Fixer.
[12] Writing for AfterEllen, Claire Heuchan described The Villains as "a slick political thriller like Scandal if Olivia Pope was sapphic", noting that the relationship between the series' main characters Eden and Michelle was "the ultimate Opposites Attract romance".