Contact: leecn@hawaii.edu
Christina N. Lee is a Ph.D. candidate and graduate assistant at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. She has published both short fiction and poetry in a special issue of Bamboo Ridge, Kīpuka: Finding Refuge in Times of Change. In 2023, “Kill Your Darlings,” her piece, a short autofiction that explores the traumatic effects of sexual violence, was awarded the Biography Prize by the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa's Center for Biographical Research.
Publications
Lee, Christina N. "a lesson in grief." Kīpuka: Finding Refuge in Times of Change, Issue #119, Bamboo Ridge Press, 2021.
Lee, Christina N. "Her Mind is the Shore." Kīpuka: Finding Refuge in Times of Change, Issue #119, Bamboo Ridge Press, 2021.
Lee, Christina N. “White Hair.” Aliquot, Hoʻolana Publishing, 2026, https://www.hoolanapublishing.org/chapbooks/christina-lee.
Areas of Interest
Her research interests include life writing studies, Asian American literature, diaspora, and disability.
Awards
2023 Duk Hee Lee Murabayashi Scholarship
2023 Biography Prize for "Kill Your Darlings."
2021 Grace K. J. Abernathy Scholarship in Creative Writing
2020 Elizabeth McCutcheon Scholarship for Literary Studies
2020 The Stephen C. & William H. Stryker Award for Fiction
2019 Youn Ye Lee Scholarship
Education
B.A. in English, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. December 2016.
M.A. in English, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. May 2021.
Courses
Fall Semester 2026
- ENG-271: Introduction to Literature: Genre
- ENG-311: Autobiographical Writing
Summer Semester 2025
- ENG-273: Introduction to Literature: Creative Writing
Fall Semester 2025
- ENG-311: Autobiographical Writing