JJ Lee

JJ Lee edited the nonfiction “Christmas Blues” anthologies: Better Next Year, Upon A Midnight Clear, and Better This Year. He is also the author of The Measure of a Man: The Story of a Father, a Son, and a Suit, which was shortlisted for the 2011 Governor-General’s Literary Award for Nonfiction, the 2012 Charles Taylor Prize for Literary Nonfiction, and the 2012 Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Nonfiction.

As a magazine feature and essay writer, his pieces have appeared in print and online in Canadian Architect, C Magazine, Parachute, Border Crossings, The Georgia Straight, Vancouver Magazine, Flare, Fashion, Maclean’s, Nuvo, and Montecristo. He received a Gold Award for Best Short Feature from the National Magazine Awards for his essay “ELLE First: You Are Beautiful.”

He has also juried the Hubert Evans Nonfiction Prize at the BC Book Prizes, the Governor-General’s Literary Award for Nonfiction, and the Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize. He lives in New Westminster, BC.