Poet Esther Lee
Photo by Michael Marcinek

Hailing from the American South, Esther Lee lives and writes on a sailboat with her artist husband, Michael, and their cat, Bowie. A Kundiman fellow, she is the author of the chapbook, Blank Missives (Trafficker Press, 2007), and her debut poetry collection Spit (2011), which received the Elixir Press Poetry Prize and Pushcart Prize nominations. Her second poetry collection, Sacrificial Metal, was selected for the Minds on Fire Book Prize by Conduit Books & Ephemera. Her writing and collaborations with visual artists have appeared in multiple literary magazines and anthologies.