Aidan Lee was a 2019 MacDowell fellow. Her poetry collection If You Had Known Me was a Semi-Finalist in Persea Books’ 2019 Lexi Rudnitsky First Book Prize; and a Semi-Finalist in Crab Orchard Review's 2019, 2018 and 2017 First Book Award Competition.Her poems have been published by Salamander, Bayou, Memoir, Aunt Chloe, J Journal, Tiferet Journal, Santa Ana Review, Snapdragon, Rise Up Review, Paper Nautilus and The Fourth River. She had Notable Essays in the Best American Essays 2017, 2016 and 2015. Aidan has an MFA from Hunter College.Aidan Lee is a pseudonym.