Sky Lee (born September 15, 1952, as Sharon Lee) is a Canadian artist and novelist. Lee has published both feminist fiction and non-fiction.
Moving to Vancouver in 1967 to attend university, she received a B.A. in Fine Arts at the University of British Columbia and a Diploma in Nursing from Douglas College. She became a member of the Asian Canadian Writers Workshop. Lee lives on Saltspring Island, British Columbia.
Lee is a lesbian.
In the same year, Lee contributed to the collective prose, Telling It: Women and Language Across Culture. The book's writing is attributed to the "Telling It Book Collective", of which Lee was a member. The book explores issues of racism and homophobia experienced by native, lesbian and Asian Canadian women.
In 1994, Lee published Bellydancer: Stories, a collection of 15 short stories that explore a range of feminist themes, with allegories focusing primarily on the "bellydancer," an archetype of survival. The back cover of the book explains: "bellydancing was originally performed at the bedside of women in labor, as an erotic dance of creation."
Critical Studies: Dr. John Z. Ming Chen's monograph, The Influence of Daoism on Asian-Canadian Writers (2008), features an entire chapter on SKY Lee's two book-length works of fiction published so far.
Her short stories have also appeared in Vancouver Short Stories as well as periodicals such as West Coast Line, The Asianadian, Kinethis, and Makara.
Bibliography
- Teach Me to Fly, Skyfighter!: And Other Stories (as illustrator, text by Paul Yee) – 1983
- Disappearing Moon Cafe – 1990
- Telling It: Women and Language Across Cultures – 1990 (with Betsy Warland, Lee Maracle and Daphne Marlatt) Press Gang Publishers
- Bellydancer: Stories – 1994