Lance Lee's selected poetry, Elemental Natures, appeared in the fall of 2020, capping 40 years of poetry publications. He is a past Creative Writing Fellow of the National Endowment for the Arts. His work includes his poetry, works on screenwriting (A Poetics for Screenwriters), plays (Time's Up and Other Plays), novels (Second Chances), and various essays (in On The Waterfront, Cambridge Film Handbooks). As a dramatist has range of characters runs from the last fox in Los Angeles to Rasputin... An environmentalist, he was central in establishing the State Park system in the Santa Monica Mountains behind his home in the Los Angeles area. Half his family lives in North London where he and his wife routinely spend extended periods each year.
