Mackenzi Lee (born Mackenzie Van Engelenhoven)[1] 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.[2]

Mackenzi Lee
Lee at the 2018 Texas Book Festival
Born	MacKenzie Van Engelenhoven
Nationality	American
Alma mater	Simmons College
Genre	Historical fiction, non-fiction
Website
mackenzilee.com

Life and career

Lee has a Master of Fine Arts from Simmons University in writing for children and young adults.[3]

Lee's first book, 2015's This Monstrous Thing, was a retelling of Frankenstein and earned Lee the 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 in 2018, Lee published Bygone Badass Broads: 52 Forgotten Women Who Changed the World.[2][4]

Her second novel, entitled 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. This novel led to a series of books featuring the Montague siblings and a diverse set of characters whose struggles are presented in an era that didn't necessarily respect diversity.[3]

She has contracted with Marvel to write three historical fiction books featuring Marvel antiheroes, beginning with a story about Loki out in September 2019 under the title Loki: Where Mischief Lies.[5]

Bibliography

• This Monstrous Thing (2015)
• The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue (2017)
• Bygone Badass Broads: 52 Forgotten Women Who Changed the World (2018)
• All Out: The No-Longer-Secret Stories of Queer Teens throughout the Ages (contributing writer) (2018)
• The Radical Element: 12 Stories of Daredevils, Debutantes & Other Dauntless Girls (contributing writer) (2018)
• The Lady's Guide to Petticoats and Piracy (2018)
• The History of the World in Fifty Dogs (2019)
• The Gentleman's Guide to Getting Lucky (2019)
• Loki: Where Mischief Lies (2019)
• Gamora & Nebula: Sisters in Arms (2021)
• The Nobleman's Guide to Scandal and Shipwrecks (2021)

References