Helen Elaine Lee

Helen Elaine Lee grew up in Detroit, Michigan, and she is a graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Law School. She is the author of three novels: The Serpent’s Gift, Water Marked, and Pomegranate. Helen was on the board of PEN New England for ten years, and she served on its Freedom to Write Committee, along with founding and volunteering with its Prison Creative Writing Program. She is a professor of comparative media studies/writing at MIT.