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Mary Soon Lee was born and raised in London, but has lived in Pittsburgh for thirty years. She is a Grand Master of the Science Fiction & Fantasy Poetry Association, and three-time winner of both the AnLab Readers’ Award and the Rhysling Award. Her latest books are from opposite shores of the poetry ocean: How to Navigate Our Universe containing 128 astronomy poems, and The Sign of the Dragon, a novel-length epic fantasy told in poetry. She hides her online presence with a cryptically named website (marysoonlee.com) and an equally cryptic BlueSky account (@marysoonlee.bsky.social).
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	Sword and Sorceress XIV by Marion Zimmer Bradley (Editor / Contributor), Rachel E. Holmen (Editor), Laura J. Underwood (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 4.07 avg rating — 491 ratings — published 1997 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Elemental Haiku: Poems to Honor the Periodic Table Three Lines at a Time 4.24 avg rating — 260 ratings — published 2019 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Sign of the Dragon 4.49 avg rating — 157 ratings — published 2020 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Crowned: The Sign of The Dragon Book 1 by Mary Soon Lee (Goodreads Author), M. Wayne Miller (Illustrator) 4.48 avg rating — 27 ratings — published 2015 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	How to Navigate Our Universe 4.82 avg rating — 11 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Ebb Tides and Other Tales 3.71 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 2002 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Winter Shadows & Other Tales 3.50 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2001	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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I have two poems -- River Dragon + Samurai Dragon -- in SpecPoVerse, Vol. 2, Issue 1, 2026 . [That's a link; the issue is free to read online.]

Both poems are part of an extended dragon sequence that I'm working on intermittently. Another couple of the poems appeared in Star*Line and Eye to the Telescope. Read more of this blog post »

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The Immortals of Meluha (Shiva Trilogy, #1)

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Le tombe di Atuan

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