About the Author

Marlene Lee has worked as a court reporter, teacher, college instructor, and writer. A graduate of Kansas Wesleyan University (BA), University of Kansas (MA), and Brooklyn College (MFA), she currently tutors in the Writing Center at the University of Missouri. She has published numerous stories, poems, and essays, in the "Indiana Review," "Descant," "Orange County Illustrated," Maverick Press, "Autobiography," "Calyx," "Other Voices," "roger: a journal of literature and art" and "Blue Fifth Review." She won first prize in the Pacific Northwest Writers Conference Novel Contest, and first prize in the University of Kansas Poetry Contest.

Reviews

"I couldn't put down"The Absent Woman." I relished every scene, every word. It's one of the most compelling novels that I've read. Ella Leffland, author, "Rumors of Peace"