Helen Elaine Lee

Born: March 13, 1959, Detroit, Michigan Helen Elaine Lee is an American author and academic. She was educated at Harvard College and Harvard Law School. She is Director of the Program in Women's & Gender Studies and Professor of Fiction Writing in Comparative Media Studies/​Writing at MIT. Associate Chair of the Board of Directors of PEN New England, she serves on its Freedom to Write Committee and teaches in its Prison Creative Writing Program, which she helped to establish.