Chin-Sun Lee is the author of the forthcoming sci-fi horror thriller Soon You’ll Be Just Like Us (Creature Publishing 2027) and debut novel Upcountry (Unnamed Press 2023), listed among Publishers Weekly Big Indie Books of Fall 2023 and Debutiful’s Best Debut Books of 2023, and is one of Poets & Writers’ 5 Over 50 for 2023. She’s also a contributor to the New York Times bestselling anthology Women in Clothes (Blue Rider Press/Penguin 2014).

A first generation Korean American and former fashion designer, she earned her MFA in Creative Writing at The New School in New York. Her work has appeared in Electric Literature, Literary Hub, The Georgia Review, The Rumpus, Joyland, and The Believer, among other publications.

She is grateful for writing fellowships from Hawthornden Castle, The Hambidge Center, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Brush Creek Foundation for the Arts, and the Playa Artists Residency. She writes, edits, and teaches in New Orleans.