About

Brooke Lee is a Canadian, QWOC writer and musician based in Montreal. She hosts an online creative writing workshop called Sapphic Writes! and her work has been featured in Read Quebec, Montreal Review of Books, The Miramichi Reader, and The British Columbia Review. In 2026, she founded Subgenres, a literary press for short fiction.

Brooke writes fiction and songs under the pen name River Lee. She is a former fiction mentee of the Quebec Writers’ Federation Mentorship Program, a fiction reader for the Ex-Puritan, and a Canada Council for the Arts grant recipient for her work-in-progress, debut novel (a blended work of prose and songs). She’s also the event producer and host of SUNDROP: a community platform for musicians in Montreal.