Nancy Lee's Dead Girls (M&S, 2002) a collection of eight stories, received the 2003 VanCity Book Prize for best B.C. book pertaining to women's issues. The eight stories of desire and delusion are linked by a serial killer's arrest in Vancouver. We meet a hand-model who's bond with her ailing father is revealed through an inventory of her body parts; three teenagers who tangle in an awkward scheme of sex and money on Valentine's Day; and a pill-dependent nurse who juggles neuroses, infatuation and exhaustion while supervising a high school dance-a-thon. 0-7710-5250-2

Lee was born in England and immigrated to Canada at a young age, received her MFA in Creative Writing at UBC, and has taught at SFU's Writing and Publishing program and UBC's Booming Ground.