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Mackenzi Lee

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Mackenzi Lee is an American author of books for children and young adults. She writes both fiction and non-fiction about topics including sexuality and the role of women throughout history. Her second novel, The Gentleman’s Guide to Vice and Virtue, was a New York Times Best Seller and earned a Stonewall Book Award for its portrayal of a bisexual young man in 18th-century Europe.

Lee’s first book, 2015’s This Monstrous Thing, was a retelling of the Frankenstein story and earned Lee the Pen-New England Susan P. Bloom Children’s Book Discovery Award. 

In the promotional period for this book, she began posting on Twitter under the hashtag #BygoneBadassBroads, sharing biographies of notable women beginning with Mary Shelley. This project grew in popularity, and Lee published Bygone Badass Broads: 52 Forgotten Women Who Changed the World in 2018.

She has contracted with Marvel to write three historical fiction books featuring Marvel antiheroes, beginning with a story about Loki due in spring 2019.[1]

She is openly bi.