C. B. Lee

Lee's parents are immigrants from Vietnam and China.[2] Lee is openly bisexual[3] and also open about her struggles with mental illness.[4] She has been featured in Teen Vogue, Hypable, and Wired Magazine for her novels.[5] Lee is represented by Thao Le of the Sandra Dijkstra Literary Agency.[6]

Her debut young adult novel, Seven Tears at High Tide, about a boy who gets rescued and falls for a selkie, was published by Duet Books in 2015. It won the 2016 Rainbow Award for Bisexual Fantasy & Fantasy Romance in 2016[7] and was a finalist for the 2016 Bisexual Book Award in the category Young Adult and Speculative Fiction.[8]

The first book in the Sidekick Squad series, Not Your Sidekick, was published by Duet Books in 2016.[9] It tells the story of Jess, a bisexual teen without superpowers living in a world where superpowers are normal, who has to compete with her town's infamous supervillain for her dream internship and deal with her crush on her friend Abby.[10][11] Not Your Sidekick was a finalist for the 2017 Lambda Literary Award in the category LGBTQ Children's/Young Adult[12] and a finalist for the 2017 Bisexual Book Award in Speculative Fiction.[8] The second book, Not Your Villain, following the protagonists from the first novel who have now joined a resistance movement, was published by Duet Books in 2017.[13] A third book, Not Your Backup, was published in 2019. Lee cites the X-men and wanting to write a story incorporating identity and alienation as inspiration for writing the series.[14] Lee has a new book, Queer We Go Again, that will be published on May 26, 2020.[15]

Lee also contributed a short story to Saundra Mitchell's yet-untitled follow-up anthology to All Out, to be published by Inkyard Press in 2020.[16]