Diana Keren Lee is the author of How to Cast a Beautiful Animal, winner of the Poetic Justice Institute Editor’s Prize (Fordham University Press, forthcoming 2026). Selected by Tomás Q. Morín as the winner of a Poetry Society of America Chapbook Fellowship, her work has appeared in Boston Review, The Common, Denver Quarterly, The New Republic, Pleiades, Prairie Schooner, and elsewhere. A two-time National Poetry Series finalist, she was twice nominated for Best of the Net 2026. She received degrees from The University of Texas at Austin and New York University and fellowships from MacDowell and Yaddo. Born in Austin, she has also lived in New York and Los Angeles and resides in the Front Range of Colorado.