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Lee Upton

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St. Johns, Michigan, The United States

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https://www.leeupton.com/

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Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry

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Lee Upton writes books of poetry, fiction, non-fiction, and literary criticism. Her comic novel, Tabitha, Get Up, was named a semi-finalist for the 2026 James Thurber Prize for American Humor. A sequel, Tabitha, Stay Up, is forthcoming in September 2026. Her psychological thriller The Withers, with highly positive reviews from Kirkus and Library Journal, was released in June 2026. Her literary mystery, Wrongful, appeared in 2025. She is also the author of The Day Every Day Is, winner of the Saturnalia Books Prize, and two collections of short stories, The Tao of Humiliation, and Visitations, which were both awarded the Kirkus Star. The Tao of Humiliation received the BOA Short Fiction Prize. Her novella, The Guide to the Flying Island, was ...more

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	The Tao of Humiliation (American Readers Series) 3.50 avg rating — 62 ratings — published 2014 — 4 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
	Swallowing the Sea: On Writing & Ambition, Boredom, Purity & Secrecy really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 30 ratings — published 2012 — 4 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
	Tabitha, Get Up 4.50 avg rating — 24 ratings — 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
	Visitations really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 20 ratings — 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
	The Guide To The Flying Island 3.76 avg rating — 21 ratings — published 2009	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
	Undid in the Land of Undone really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 17 ratings — published 2007	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 Withers 4.19 avg rating — 16 ratings — 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
	No Mercy 3.86 avg rating — 14 ratings — published 1989 — 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
	Wrongful 3.79 avg rating — 14 ratings — 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
	Bottle the Bottles the Bottles the Bottles 3.90 avg rating — 10 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

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“Our risk is our cure.”
― Lee Upton

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“By the time I was thirteen I learned to smile often—to reassure my mother that I wasn’t being harmed by her sadness.”
― Lee Upton, The Tao of Humiliation

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“Who could have warned me about the way mourning works and how it doesn’t ever quite end?”
― Lee Upton, The Tao of Humiliation

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