Wes Lee lives in Aotearoa New Zealand. She has four poetry collections – her latest, Wearing Today, was shortlisted for The Kathleen Grattan Award 2023 (Otago University Press). Her work has appeared in a wide array of publications, including Best New Zealand Poems, Westerly, Poetry London, New Writing Scotland, The London Magazine, The Stinging Fly. Most recently she was awarded the Magma Editors' Prize 2024/25; the 2024 Free Verse Prize, by The Poetry Society, in London, and the Heroines/Joyce Parkes Women's Writing Prize 2022, in New South Wales.