Lee Montgomery

Lee Montgomery is the author of The Things Between Us, Whose World Is This?, and Searching for Emily: Illustrated. The Things Between Us received the 2007 Oregon Book Award and was a four-star critic’s choice for People magazine. Whose World Is This? received the 2007 John Simmons Iowa Short Fiction Award and was a finalist for the 2008 Ken Kesey Award in Fiction. Her short fiction and nonfiction have appeared in numerous publications including most recently the New York Times Magazine, Oprah, Story, Glimmer Train, Antioch Review, Iowa Review, and Tin House, among others. She received an MFA from the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop.

Lee has over thirty years working as an editor for literary magazines such as The Iowa Review, The Santa Monica Review, and Tin House and book companies as an associate publisher, editorial director, ghostwriter, and editor. She spent over a decade at Tin House where she was the founding editorial director and associate publisher at Tin House Books, an executive editor with Tin House magazine, and the founding director of the Tin House Summer Writer’s Workshop.