Margaret Lee

Margaret Lee is a poet, scholar, fiber artist, watercolor sketcher, and aspiring naturalist. She finds poems in the Oklahoma prairies, New Mexico deserts, Oregon seashores, and inner landscapes. Margaret was a finalist for the 2023 international poetry prize of The Atlanta Review and her poems have been published in four chapbooks: Someone Else’s Earth (Finishing Line 2021), poems built around surviving fragments of Sappho; Sagebrush Songs (Finishing Line 2022), a meditation on landscapes of northern New Mexico; Oklahoma Summer (Finishing Line 2023), a reflection on recent ecological and demographic challenges in Oklahoma; and Orange Persephone (Finishing Line, forthcoming in 2025), an exploration of a mother’s depths of love and grief. Her poems also appear in From Behind the Mask (Paperback, 2020) and a new anthology upcoming in 2024 whose theme is Echoes of Tradition: Indigenous Orientation to Community, Time, and Land. Margaret’s academic research and publications focus on the ancient Greek language and the history and culture of the ancient world.