Hea-Ream Lee

Hea-Ream Lee, MFA, is a writer interested in science and the natural world and the ways they transect human experiences. She has a background in biology and received an MFA in creative nonfiction at the University of Arizona, where she edited fiction for Sonora Review. While she was a Carson mentor, her full-time position at the University of Arizona was in the English department as a lecturer. 

Hea-Ream’s work has appeared in Shenandoah, Terrain.org, Popula, Hobart, and others, and she has received fellowships from Bread Loaf Environmental Writers’ Conference and the Wormfarm Institute. Her main project while working at the University of Arizona is a book about seed banks and longing. As a former Carson Scholar, Hea-Ream understands the value of an interdisciplinary space dedicated to teaching the art of science communication.

Prior to her work as a Carson Faculty Mentor, Hea-Ream was a Carson Scholar in 2019. Her continued participation with the program as a mentor was extremely valuable to the cohorts to had the privilege of working with her.