Jeffrey Ethan Lee's works include: identity papers (Ghost Road Press, 2006), invisible sister (Many Mountains Moving Press, 2004); The Sylf (2003), winner of the Sow's Ear Poetry Review Chapbook prize; and Strangers in a Homeland (Ashland Poetry Press chapbook, 2001). He also created identity papers (2002) as a full-length dramatic poem, recorded on CD with actress Lori-Nan Engler and percussion-ist Toshi Makihara. He won the first Tupelo Press Prize for literary fiction for The Autobiography of Somebody Else. He has published many poems, stories and essays in Many Mountains Moving, CrossConnect, North American Review, Crazyhorse, Crab Orchard Review, Washington Square, Green Mountain Review, and American Poetry Review, among others. He has both a Ph.D. and an MFA from New York University.

After he changed his name and left Philadelphia in 2002, Lee taught at the University of Northern Colorado in a town named after Horace "Go-West-Young-Man" Greeley. His wife, Hsiao-Ming Chen, went there with him, and their son, Ethan James Lucas Lee was born in 2003.

He became one of the editors and directors of Many Mountains Moving: a literary journal of diverse contemporary voices and a small press in 2005-2006. Visit www.mmminc.org.