Hea-Ream Lee
Hea-Ream Lee is a writer from the East Coast living in the desert. She received an MFA in creative nonfiction at the University of Arizona, where she teaches undergraduate students and edited fiction for Sonora Review. Hea-Ream’s work appears and is forthcoming in Terrain.org, Popula, Hobart, and others, and she has received a fellowship from Bread Loaf Environmental Writers’ Conference. She is working on a book about seed banks and longing.
Reading List
I Want to Go to Svalbard
I learned about it years and years ago in a listicle of interesting factoids about the world. A format inherently and intentionally scrubbed of nuance. Something like: the doomsday vault contains the world’s seeds for the apocalypse. I pictured a tunnel into a mountain, a heavy lead-lined door, a blighted earth, a repopulation. Archetypes of […]