Debra Lee

Debra Lee is from a Black Catholic Patriarchal New Orleans family. She is a remarkable story teller whose goal is to honor the ancestors. Her four grandparents represented six ethnic cultures – Native American, Hispaniolan, Chinese, White, Black (slave and free).

Ms. Lee has lived in four states and worked at five dozen jobs for city and state governments, corporations, universities, a factory, and in retail management. Her family hosted international students at both undergraduate and professional levels from African and Asian countries, and Turkey. She also volunteered as an advocate for parents of children with special needs.

Her short stories have been published in a number of periodicals. Pullman, her first novel, was published in August 2025.