Helen Elaine Lee was educated at Harvard College and Harvard Law School. She is author of The Serpent’s Gift (Atheneum, 1994) and Water Marked (Scribner, 1999). She recently finished two books: A Life Without and The Hard Loss. Her stories have appeared in Callaloo, Prairie Schooner, Hanging Loose, and Best African American Fiction (2009). She is Professor of Fiction Writing in MIT’s Program in Writing and Humanistic Studies and a Writer in Residence with the Solstice Low-Residency MFA program. A member of the Board of Directors of PEN New England, she serves on its Freedom to Write Committee and volunteers with its Prison Creative Writing Program.
