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ABOUT LEE

Lee Stockdale graduated from the University of Washington, then enlisted for three years in the Army to gain the discipline to become a writer. Three years turned into thirty, during which he served in Berlin, Stuttgart, Fort Benning, Kabul, The Pentagon, and other interesting places. After the Army he worked as a Public Defender.

Lee has won the United Kingdom National Poetry Prize, the Sidney Lanier Poetry Prize, and other prizes. His work has appeared in The Poetry Review, The Guardian, various anthologies, and elsewhere. His debut collection, Gorilla, was published in 2022 by Main Street Rag.

Lee and his wife Gail, a potter, live in the Western North Carolina mountains.

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