The idea for her debut novel came to her from something another writer friend said something in passing about time. She has written several short stories, an essay about her grandmother while she was in the seventh grade and several exchanges of letters and notebooks written in story format with family and friends. Once she discovered reading and books, everything changed and she got into writing soon after and has never stopped since. This was probably because she was a stranger in a new country and did not yet speak English very well. Growing up Lori had terrible grades until she discovered that she loved reading while she was in the second grade. Lori published her first novel “Gates of Thread and Stone” in 2014. She is currently married to a social worker that thinks he is a comedian and together with their children and a Pitbull, the family loves in Wisconsin. The voracious reader likes to read young adult fiction and says that mentally, she has never grown beyond fifteen. As a teen, she got a degree in creative writing as she believed that it would help her in her writing career. The novel never went anywhere but it convinced her that she could write. She has wanted to become an author ever since she was in the third grade and as a preteen, she wrote her first fantasy romance as a self-insert portal. Lee was born in Laos and her family was forced to flee her home and become refugees in Thailand before they moved to the US when she was three.

She loves everything about magic, family, and manipulation and has a borderline compulsive interest in unicorns. Lee is a young adult and fantasy fiction author, lover of unicorns and an artist.

Lori m lee forest of souls