Elisabeth Lee earned a Ph.D. in Victorian Literature from the University of Colorado at Boulder.

A private school teacher and sometime administrator, she is an accomplished poet and author of various professional articles. Formerly a resident of Lawrence, Kansas, a blue dot in a great ocean of red, she now calls Denver home. Those cities figure prominently in her work, along with San Francisco and New York where she has also lived.

For Glory, published late in 2006, was her first work of fiction. Flashes of Glory, a sequel was published in 2009.