Lee’s exploration of gender through the years has been fairly public, as he started writing a column “Queering SFF”, for Tor.com in the year 2010, when he was nineteen years old.

Lee gets such a true victorious satisfaction when he is able to find something rather decadent for dirt cheap. However he also grew up poor and has spent much of his adulthood on graduate school salaries, so he is a promiscuous shopper where the bottom line ends up being just how on sale is something? Consignment stores, vintage or thrifting, the discount rack: all of it is good to Lee. He also experimented with fashion that ranged from sporty femmeboy to ambiguous goth.įashion has always been part of Lee’s life from baby-goth phase on. Growing up in Bullitt Co., Kentucky alongside the evolution of the internet, he spent his early years hunting down questionable fansubs on dial-up, reading all of the gay comics he could get his hands on. Lee also appears as a speaker for events for the lecture series Out to Lunch at the University of Connecticut once every great while.īesides a short stint spent overseas learning to speak Scouse, Lee’s spent his life ranging across Kentucky, living in Lexington and getting a PhD at the University of Kentucky. The Lambda was for Transgender Fiction.Īs far as nonfiction and criticism goes, he is a regular contributor to Tor.com too, and not just the QSFF series, but also book reviews, and essay cycles such as “Safe as Life: A Four Part Essay on Maggie Stiefvater’s Raven Cycle”, and more. He’s been a past nominee for various awards such as the Hugo, Nebula, and Lambda. Other work of Lee’s can be found in magazines like Nightmare, Tor.com, and Uncanny, and his work has been reprinted in collections like Transcendent 2: The Year’s Best Transgender Speculative Fiction, ed. Lee Mandelo is a critic, writer, and occasional editor whose fields of interest include queer and speculative fiction, particularly when the two coincide. Goddess Bandit of the Thousand Arms (By:) The Adventure of the Incognita Countess (By:)īoundaries, Border Crossings, and Reinventing the Future (By:) Numa: An Epic Poem with Photo Collages (By:)īack, Belly, and Side: True Lies and False Tales (By:) Myths, Metaphors, and Science Fiction (By:Sheila Finch)

The Queen, the Cambion, and Seven Others (By:) The Adventures of the Faithful Counselor (By:) Timmel Duchamp)ĭe Secretis Mulierum (By:L. Through the Drowsy Dark (By:Rachel Swirsky)

Beyond Binary by Lee Mandelo