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{{Infobox writer 
|name = Nancy Lee
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|birth_date = 1970
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|birth_place = [[Cardiff]], Wales
|occupation = [[short story]] writer, [[novelist]]
|nationality = Canadian
|period = 2003 – present
|genre = fiction
|notableworks = ''Dead Girls''; ''The Age''
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'''Nancy Lee''' is a British-born Canadian short story writer and novelist.

==Early life==

Born in [[Cardiff]], Wales to parents of Chinese and Indian descent, she moved with her family to [[Vancouver]], [[British Columbia]], in childhood.<ref>[http://www.ryerson.ca/library/events/asian_heritage/lee_nancy.html "Asian Heritage in Canada: Nancy Lee"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120220082059/http://www.ryerson.ca/library/events/asian_heritage/lee_nancy.html |date=20 February 2012 }}, [[Ryerson University]].</ref>

==Literary career==

She published her first book of short stories, ''[[Dead Girls (book)|Dead Girls]]'', in 2003. That book was named book of the year by ''[[Now (newspaper)|NOW]]'', and was a finalist for the [[Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize]] and the [[Danuta Gleed Literary Award]]. ''The Age'', Lee's [[debut novel]], was published by McClelland & Stewart in 2014.<ref name="The Globe and Mail">{{cite news|title=The Age: The threat of nuclear annihilation hangs over Nancy Lee's latest novel|url=https://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/books-and-media/book-reviews/the-age-the-threat-of-nuclear-annihilation-hangs-over-nancy-lees-latest-novel/article17614557/|newspaper=[[The Globe and Mail]]|date=21 March 2014}}</ref>

==Teaching career==

She holds an MFA in creative writing from the [[University of British Columbia]], and is an assistant professor in the creative writing department at [[University of British Columbia]]. She has taught in the writing and publishing program at [[Simon Fraser University]] and has held a visiting professorship at the [[University of East Anglia]]. She was a panelist in the 2003 edition of ''[[Canada Reads]]'', defending [[Yann Martel]]'s novel ''[[Life of Pi]]''. In the spring of 2010 she was writer-in-residence at [[Historic Joy Kogawa House]], the writing program that takes place in the childhood home of the author [[Joy Kogawa]] (''[[Obasan]]'').

==Works==
* ''[[Dead Girls (book)|Dead Girls]]'' (2003)
* ''The Age'' (2014)

==References==
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