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C. B. Lee is an American author of young adult literature based in Los Angeles, California.[1] They are best known for their Sidekick Squad series, which follows a quartet of teenagers in a near future world of superheroes and supervillains.
C. B. Lee | |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Nationality | American |
| Genre | Young adult fiction |
| Years active | 2015-present |
| Notable works | Not Your Sidekick Seven Years at High Tide |
| Notable awards | Rainbow Award 2015 |
| Website | |
| cb-lee | |
Lee's parents are immigrants from Vietnam and China.[2] Lee is bisexual[3] and open about their struggles with mental illness.[4] They have been featured in Teen Vogue, Hypable, and Wired Magazine for their novels.[5] Lee is represented by Thao Le of the Sandra Dijkstra Literary Agency.[5]
Their debut young adult novel, Seven Tears at High Tide, about a boy who gets rescued and falls for a selkie, was published by Duet Books in 2015. It won the 2016 Rainbow Award for Bisexual Fantasy & Fantasy Romance in 2016[6] and was a finalist for the 2016 Bisexual Book Award in the category Young Adult and Speculative Fiction.[7]
The first book in the Sidekick Squad series, Not Your Sidekick, was published by Duet Books in 2016.[8] It tells the story of Jess, a bisexual teen without superpowers living in a world where superpowers are normal, who has to compete with her town's infamous supervillain for her dream internship and deal with her crush on her friend Abby.[9][10] Not Your Sidekick was a finalist for the 2017 Lambda Literary Award in the category LGBTQ Children's/Young Adult[11] and a finalist for the 2017 Bisexual Book Award in Speculative Fiction.[7] The second book, Not Your Villain, following the protagonists from the first novel who have now joined a resistance movement, was published by Duet Books in 2017.[12] A third book, Not Your Backup, was published in 2019. Lee cites the X-Men and wanting to write a story incorporating identity and alienation as inspiration for writing the series.[13]
Lee also contributed a short story to Saundra Mitchell's Out Now: Queer We Go Again!, published by Inkyard Press in 2020.[14]
Young Adult series
Sidekick Squad
- Not Your Sidekick (Duet Books, 2016, ISBN 978-1-945053-03-0)[15]
- Not Your Villain (Duet Books, 2017)[16]
- Not Your Backup (Duet Books, 2019)
- Not Your Hero (2022)
Stand-alone young adult novels
- Seven Tears at High Tide (Duet Books, 2015)
- A Clash of Steel: A Treasure Island Remix (Macmillan, 2021)[17]
| Year | Award | Category | Work | Result | Ref |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | Rainbow Awards | Bisexual Fantasy & Fantasy Romance | Seven Tears at High Tide | Won | [6] |
| Bisexual Book Awards | Young Adult and Speculative Fiction | Seven Tears at High Tide | Nominated | [7] | |
| 2017 | Lambda Literary Awards | LGBTQ Children's/Young Adult | Not Your Sidekick | Nominated | [11][18] |
| Bisexual Book Awards | Speculative Fiction | Not Your Sidekick | Nominated | [7] |
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