Dr Tom Lee
Staff details
Tom Lee is the author of a novel, The Alarming Palsy of James Orr (Granta, 2017), and a collection of short stories, Greenfly (Harvill Secker, 2008). His stories, memoir and journalism have appeared in The Guardian, The Sunday Times, Esquire, and Granta Magazine in the UK, The Dublin Review in Ireland and in Francis Ford Coppola’s Zoetrope All Story and The Paris Review in the United States, among others. His work has received the Royal Society of Literature’s Brookleaze Grant, a Society of Author’s Award and two Arts Council Grants for the Arts Awards. In 2012 he was shortlisted for The Sunday Times EFG Private Bank Short Story Award, the largest prize for a single short story in the world and in 2013 he was part of British Council UK Writers in Mexico project
Tom’s memoir, The Bullet, will be published by Granta in 2022. He is Royal Literary Fund Fellow at the University of Greenwich.
Academic qualifications
- PhD Creative Writing, Goldsmiths 2016
- MA Creative and Life Writing, Goldsmiths 2002
- BA American and English Literature, UEA 1997
Teaching and Supervision
On the MA Creative and Life Writing I teach tutorials and the specialist fiction workshop. I also convene and teach the undergraduate creative writing module Creating the Text.
Research interests
My research is focused on contemporary fiction and in particular the short story form.
Publications and research outputs
Book
Lee, Tom. 2017. The Alarming Palsy of James Orr. London: Granta. ISBN 9781783783946
Lee, Tom. 2009. Greenfly. London: Harvill Secker. ISBN 1846551943
Book Section
Lee, Tom. 2015. A porta enferrujada. In: Isabel Fernandes; Maria de Jesus Cabral; Teresa Casal; Alda Correia and Diana V. Almeida, eds. Contar (com) a Medicina. Portugal: Edicoes Pedago, pp. 267-285. ISBN 9789899655516
Article
Lee, Tom. 2022. My father's asylum. The Dublin Review(89), pp. 14-31.
Lee, Tom. 2018. The Resortist. The Dublin Review(72), ISSN 1393-998X
Lee, Tom. 2015. The invader and the antidote. The Dublin Review(57), pp. 26-45. ISSN 1393-998X
Lee, Tom. 2013. The Creaking Door. The Dublin Review(51), pp. 72-90.
Other
Lee, Tom. 2018. The Swimmer. Granta, Granta Online.
Lee, Tom. 2015. Big Cat. Vanguard, London.
Audio
Lee, Tom. 2022. The Current.
Lee, Tom. 2022. How I Write.
Lee, Tom. 2022. Letter to My Younger Self.
Digital
Lee, Tom. 2019. The Benefits of Chronic Illness.
Thesis
Lee, Thomas. 2016. Big Cat: A collection of short stories. Doctoral thesis, Goldsmiths, University of London
