I spread my drawings across the kitchen floor, aquarium blueprints unfurling like small hopes, while my father stands in the doorway, fragile as blown glass. In drama club, they hand me a slip of paper: frying bacon, a joke about the way I twist my bangs with sculpting gel, the way I’ve learned to frame […]
DJ Lee
DJ Lee’s nonfiction essays and poetry have appeared in Narrative, Silk Road Review, Terrain, and elsewhere, and they have been finalists for contests and won awards. She is author/editor of eight books, both scholarly and creative, on literature, history, and the environment, including the oral history collection The Land Speaks (Oxford 2017), and a lyric memoir Remote: Finding Home in the Bitterroots (Oregon State 2020). She is Regents Professor at Washington State University where she teaches literature and creative writing.