Rebecca Lee (born May 5, 1967) is an American novelist and professor.
She is the author of the novella The City Is a Rising Tide (2006) and the short story collection Bobcat and Other Stories (2013), which won the Believer Book Award.
[1][2] Lee earned a MFA at the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop in 1992.
[3] She is an associate professor at the University of North Carolina Wilmington.
[4] She has been awarded the Danuta Gleed Literary Award in 2012, the National Magazine Award for her short story "Fialta" in 2001, the Bunting Fellowship at Harvard University 2001-2002l and in 1997, the Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Award and the Michener Fellowship at the Iowa Writers' Workshop in 1997.