Lee Montgomery is the author of The Things Between Us, a memoir, Whose World Is This?, and Searching for Emily, an illustrated novella. The Things Between Us received an Oregon Book Award in creative nonfiction and Whose World Is This? received the Iowa Short Fiction Award. Her fiction and nonfiction work has appeared in numerous publications including the New York Times magazine, Glimmer Train, Tin House, Story magazine, the Iowa Review, and the Antioch Review, among others.