Lance Lee’s poems, stories and articles appear in both American and English journals. Books of poetry include Wrestling With The Angel (1990), Becoming Human (2001), and Human/Nature (2005). Seasons of Defiance appeared in 2010, where it placed as at finalist in the 8th. Online National USA Book Awards. Transformations, combining art and poetry, appeared in 2013, Homecomings in 2015. His selected poetry, Elemental Natures, is now appearing in 2020.
Essays appear variously, including the “The American Voice” online for the US Poets Issue for Agenda, and “Script Analysis Conventional and Unconventional” in On The Waterfront from Cambridge University Press.
A number of his plays have been produced and published. Rasputin and Gambits were produced at the Eugene O’Neill National Playwrights Conference. Time’s Up and Fox, Hound, and Huntress were premiered in Los Angeles, the latter with help from the Rockefeller Foundation via the Office for Advanced Drama Research. Publications includeTime’s Up; Fox, Hound, and Huntress; and Time’s Up and Other Plays.
He has published several works on screenwriting and drama: The Understructure of Writing for Film & Television, A Poetics for Screenwriters, and The Death and Life of Drama: reflections on writing and human nature for a wider professional audience.
His works also include a novel, Second Chances.
He founded an MFA program in playwrighting at the University of Southern California, and helped found the graduate screenwriting program at California State University, Northridge. His family is split between Pacific Palisades in Los Angeles, where he helped establish the California State Park System in the Santa Monica Mountains, and London, where a married daughter lives by chance in the family seat for generations on his wife’s side.
