Wes Lee's chapbook of short fiction Cowboy Genes (2014) was published by Grist Books at the University of Huddersfield. She has won a number of awards for her writing internationally and in New Zealand including the BNZ Katherine Mansfield Literary Award and the Bronwyn Tate Memorial Award. Her poems have appeared in a variety of publications including The London Magazine, Poetry London, Cordite, Westerly, The Stony Thursday Book and Landfall.