When she’s not reading, playing the piano, or talking to other writers, Marlene Lee holds down a table at the Lakota Coffee House in Columbia, Missouri, confronting blank pages during business hours and postponing the inevitable with another cup of coffee.
Before writing full-time, she carted her stenotype machine from place to place (eventual settings for her fiction) in a moveable feast of reporting: Brookings, Oregon; Seattle, Washington; Chico, California; San Francisco; and New York City. She now lives in Columbia, Missouri.
Before her freelance court reporting career, she taught high school, children’s special education, Freshman and Sophomore college English, and vocational school classes in stenotype. Always and in-between, she was writing short stories and novels, accumulating publishable manuscripts before being actually published in 2013. (Lee’s fiction titles: The Absent Woman, Rebecca’s Road, Scoville, Limestone Wall, No Certain Home, published by Holland House books; and now, Inner Passage, Collected Short Stories, published by Experiments in Fiction.)
Her author page can be found at marlenelee.wordpress.com.
Marlene Lee 
You look fantastic. Let’s have coffee and talk over old times. Stay well. Your old friend, Mayr
Marlene, it was wonderful to meet you that cold night at the KGB Bar. I really need to acquire one of your books- maybe your set of mystery stories that aren’t really mystery stories. Hope you’re doing well.
C.A. Shoultz
Hi Marlene, have you ever lived in San Diego?
That must be another Marlene Lee. I’ve never lived in San Diego.
Hi Marlene — how are you??? We met at the NYState Summer Writers Workshop at Skidmore a few years back. Good to see you are publishing!
Thanks, Pam. Nice to hear from you. Are you still writing? Were you in the class taught by Margot Livesey? I saw her at a reading in Iowa City (Prairie Lights) and we both reflected on all those years ago! I loved the summer sessions at Skidmore.
Nope – I was in the Marilynne Robinson/Siri Hustvedt one.
I was given your name by Bonnie Harris at Brooklyn College. I’d considering the MFA program there, and I’d like to correspond with you to talk about your experience. Please let me know how I could contact you