Lance Lee
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Lance Lee

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My poems, stories and articles have appeared widely in both American and English journals. Books of poetry include Wrestling With The Angel (1990), Becoming Human (2001), Human/Nature (2006), Seasons of Defiance (a finalist in the 8th. National USA Book Awards 2010, Transformations (2013), Homecomings (2015), Elemental Natures, selected lyrics, sequences, and prose (2020).

My plays, Rasputin and Gambits were produced at the Eugene O’Neill National Playwrights Conference. Time’s Up and Fox, Hound, and Huntress were premiered in Los Angeles; publications include Time’s Up; Fox, Hound & Huntress; and Time’s Up and Other Plays.

I founded graduate playwrighting and the graduate screenwriting programs respectively at USC and California State University, Northridge. Books on screenwriting include The Understructure of Writing for Film & Television, A Poetics for Screenwriters, and The Death and Life of Drama, reflections on writing and human nature.

Second Chances, a novel (2001).

Under my own trademark, LWL Books:
Orpheus Rising (a Kirkus Indie Best Book of 2021), The Tale of Brian and the House Painter Mervyn (Readers' Favorite Bronze Medal 2022), and FAMILY MATTERS (a family/cultural memoir 2022). The Tale Of The Animals' Christmas In Crouch End will appear November, 2023.

I am a recipient of a Creative Writing Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts.

My family is split between Los Angeles, where I helped establish the California State Park System in the Santa Monica Mountains, and London, where a married daughter lives in Crouch End, the family seat for generations on my wife’s side.

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