Alice Lee

Poet and painter Alice Lee is the former editor and publisher of Orca Press, the Alaskan letterpress publishing house, for which she received a Pushcart Prize for best of the small presses. She was also editor and publisher of Whistle Lake Press in Washington State. Lee was an Alaskan Poet Laureate finalist and has been awarded artist residencies at Yaddo, Hedgebrook, Villa Montalvo in California, and Avignon, France. She taught college English for 30-plus years in Missouri, Alaska, Seattle,...See more

Poet and painter Alice Lee is the former editor and publisher of Orca Press, the Alaskan letterpress publishing house, for which she received a Pushcart Prize for best of the small presses. She was also editor and publisher of Whistle Lake Press in Washington State. Lee was an Alaskan Poet Laureate finalist and has been awarded artist residencies at Yaddo, Hedgebrook, Villa Montalvo in California, and Avignon, France. She taught college English for 30-plus years in Missouri, Alaska, Seattle, China and Whidbey Island, Washington. Besides writing and painting, Lee enjoys travel, gardening and working with her Golden retriever service dog, Austin. She lives with her poet husband Wayne Lee in Portland, Oregon. See aliceroselee.com. See less