C. B. Lee

C. B. Lee is a Chinese-Vietnamese-American author based out of Los Angeles, California.[1] She is the author of young adult fiction, best known for her Sidekick Squad series, which follows a quartet of teenagers in a near future world of superheroes and supervillains.

C. B. Lee
LanguageEnglish
NationalityAmerican
Genreyoung adult fiction
Notable worksNot Your Sidekick, Seven Years at High Tide
Notable awardsRainbow Award 2015
Years active2015-now
Website
cb-lee.com

Profile

Lee's parents are immigrants from Vietnam and China.[2] Lee is openly bisexual[3] and also open about her struggles with mental illness.[4] She has been featured in Teen Vogue, Hypable, and Wired Magazine for her novels.[5] Lee is represented by Thao Le of the Sandra Dijkstra Literary Agency.[6]

Selected works

Her debut young adult novel, Seven Tears at High Tide, about a boy who gets rescued and falls for a selkie, was published by Duet Books in 2015. It won the 2016 Rainbow Award for Bisexual Fantasy & Fantasy Romance in 2016[7] and was a finalist for the 2016 Bisexual Book Award in the category Young Adult and Speculative Fiction.[8]

The first book in the Sidekick Squad series, Not Your Sidekick, was published by Duet Books in 2016.[9] It tells the story of Jess, a bisexual teen without superpowers living in a world where superpowers are normal, who has to compete with her town's infamous supervillain for her dream internship and deal with her crush on her friend Abby.[10][11] Not Your Sidekick was a finalist for the 2017 Lambda Literary Award in the category LGBTQ Children's/Young Adult[12] and a finalist for the 2017 Bisexual Book Award in Speculative Fiction.[8] The second book, Not Your Villain, following the protagonists from the first novel who have now joined a resistance movement, was published by Duet Books in 2017.[13] A third book, Not Your Backup, was published in 2019. Lee cites the X-men and wanting to write a story incorporating identity and alienation as inspiration for writing the series.[14] Lee has a new book, Queer We Go Again, that will be published on May 26, 2020.[15]

Lee also contributed a short story to Saundra Mitchell's yet-untitled follow-up anthology to All Out, to be published by Inkyard Press in 2020.[16]

Selected bibliography

Sidekick Squad
  • Not Your Sidekick (Duet Books, 2016)
  • Not Your Villain (Duet Books, 2017)
  • Not Your Backup (Duet Books, 2019)
  • Not Your Hero (2021 not released yet)

Stand-alone young adult novels
  • Seven Tears at High Tide (Duet Books, 2015)

Awards

Won
  • Rainbow Award for Bisexual Fantasy & Fantasy Romance for Seven Tears at High Tide (Duet Books, 2015)[7]

Nominated
  • Bisexual Book Award in Young Adult and Speculative Fiction for Seven Tears at High Tide (Duet Books, 2015)[8]
  • Lambda Literary Award in the category LGBTQ Children's/Young Adult for Not Your Sidekick (Duet Books, 2016)[12]
  • Bisexual Book Award Finalist in Speculative Fiction for Not Your Sidekick (Duet Books, 2016)[8]
  • Lambda Literary Award in the category LGBTQ Children's/Young Adult for Not Your Sidekick (Duet Books, 2017)[17]

References
  1. "C.B. Lee". www.amazon.com. Retrieved 2020-04-30.
  2. "11 Authors Discuss Dealing with Depression, Being Mixed Race, and More on September's YA Open Mic". The B&N Teen Blog. 2016-09-01. Retrieved 2018-11-26.
  3. "Interview: C.B. Lee & Rachel Davidson Leigh – YA Pride". www.gayya.org. Retrieved 2018-11-26.
  4. "Redefining Super". Diversity in YA. Retrieved 2018-11-26.
  5. "About the Author". CB Lee. 2015-11-19. Retrieved 2020-04-30.
  6. "About the Author". CB Lee. 2015-11-19. Retrieved 2020-04-30.
  7. "2016 Rainbow Awards". www.elisarolle.com. Retrieved 2018-11-26.
  8. "The Bi Writers Association - Finalists & Winners". www.biwriters.org. Retrieved 2018-11-26.
  9. "Children's Book Review: Not Your Sidekick by C.B. Lee. Duet, $16.99 trade paper (262p) ISBN 978-1-945053-03-0". PublishersWeekly.com. Retrieved 2018-11-26.
  10. "What's New in LGBTQIA+ YA September and October 2016". School Library Journal. Retrieved 2018-11-26.
  11. "Kick off Bisexual Awareness Week with 12 2016 YA Books". The B&N Teen Blog. 2016-09-19. Retrieved 2018-11-26.
  12. Team, Edit (2017-03-14). "29th Annual Lambda Literary Award Finalists Announced". Lambda Literary. Retrieved 2018-11-26.
  13. Tesoro, Christina (2017-11-16). "'Not Your Villain' by C.B. Lee". Lambda Literary. Retrieved 2018-11-26.
  14. "The Best Superheroes Right Now Aren't on Screens. They're in Books". WIRED. Retrieved 2018-11-26.
  15. "About the Author". CB Lee. 2015-11-19. Retrieved 2020-04-30.
  16. "Rights Report: Week of September 24, 2018". PublishersWeekly.com. Retrieved 2018-11-26.
  17. Johns, Wayne, ed. (2019-03-11), "Where Your Children Are", Every True Pleasure, University of North Carolina Press, pp. 181–191, doi:10.5149/northcarolina/9781469646800.003.0020, ISBN 978-1-4696-4680-0
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