Lee Montgomery is the author of a memoir The Things Between Us, a book of stories Whose World Is This?, and the illustrated novella, Searching for Emily. The Things Between Us received the Oregon Book Award and Whose World Is This? received the Iowa Short Fiction Award. Her past editorial work has included fiction editor for the Iowa Review, editor of the Santa Monica Review, executive editor at Tin House magazine and editorial director of Tin House Books. Other work has appeared in publications such as the New York Times Magazine, Oprah, Glimmer Train, Antioch Review, Iowa Review, among many others. She attended the Community of Writers in 1999, and returned as part of the Published Alumni Reading Series in 2007.