Lee Kottner is a writer and editor now living in the Bronx, after 17 years in Brooklyn, NY. She received a liberal and feminist education at Chatham College and an M.A. in medieval English and History at Michigan State University, where she also took workshops with Diane Wakoski. The rest of her higher education consisted of an ill-fated stab at a medieval history Ph.D. at NYU, three years of Gestalt therapy, 20 years of living in New York City, and a couple of long, strange trips to Europe. She is also taking courses at New York University’s Center for Publishing and the Center for Book Arts. Her poetry has appeared in several literary journals and small press anthologies, and in a chapbook from Blue Stone Press. Her first novel, Prospero’s Daughter, is looking for a good agent. The webzine Strange Horizons published her story “The Bear Dancer,” adapted from the novel in 2002; it was then awarded an Honorable Mention by The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror: Sixteenth Annual Collection, eds. Ellen Datlow and Terry Windling. Lee currently is working on her second novel, and several artist's books. Stories from the Ruins, a hand-bound, hardcover chapbook of 16 poems about the events of 9/11, was published by Another Grid Kid Production in 2002. The Detroit Institute of Arts included it in an exhibit that opened in November 2003 and ran through march 2004; it was part of the Works on Paper exhibit at Flux Factory in May 2006. The book is also permanent part of the Franklin Furnace Collection at the Museum of Modern Art.