Austen Lee’s writing has appeared in EVENT, Glass Buffalo, Poetry Is Dead, PRISM international, and Grain. She is the first-place winner of EVENT magazine’s 2023 Non-Fiction Contest, and was a finalist for the 2021 Edna Staebler Personal Essay Contest and the 2018 Pacific Spirit Poetry Prize. She won the Alberta Magazine Publishers Association gold award for poetry in 2018 and the 2017 James H. Gray Award for Short Nonfiction. Originally from rural northern Alberta, she lives in Ottawa, Canada.