Lee Doty

Lee W. Doty was born in Atlanta, Georgia in 1953. She grew up in Briarcliff Manor, NY, received her BS from Duke University in 1974 and JD from Georgetown University Law Center in 1979, and practiced law until 2015. She received her MFA in Creative Writing from the Rosemont College of Graduate Studies in 2009.

Lee writes murder mysteries, and her first, Tidal Kin, was published in 2017 by Headline Books, Inc. Tidal Kin recently won Honorary Mention in the 2017 New England Book Festival Contest. Her sequel, featuring the smart-assed, big-hearted lawyer, Norma Bergen, is in the works.

Lee teaches creative writing in the Lifelong Learning Program at Shepherd University in Shepherdstown, WV.