Nancy Lee is a Welsh-born Canadian short story writer and novelist.
Born in Cardiff, Wales to parents of Chinese and Indian descent, she moved with her family to Vancouver, British Columbia, in childhood.
[2] She holds an MFA in creative writing from the University of British Columbia, and is an assistant professor in the creative writing department at University of British Columbia.
She was a panelist in the 2003 edition of Canada Reads, defending Yann Martel's novel Life of Pi.
In the spring of 2010 she was writer-in-residence at Historic Joy Kogawa House, the writing program that takes place in the childhood home of the author Joy Kogawa (Obasan).