You May Be Wondering...

Hello, and thank you for visiting my site and blog! You may be wondering who I am and where I came from. You may be wondering about my story, my life, and what got me into writing.

First of all, I would like to explain the difference between R.B. Lee and Rebecca Lee. Here it is: there is no difference! R.B. Lee is Rebecca, and Rebecca is R.B. Lee. I began using "R.B. Lee" as a way to keep my novelist and poetry life separate from my professional "writer in an office" life. However, I'm not sure what good it does me when I just told everyone on the internet...

Anyway, since I know you're wondering...

I'm a writer. My name is Rebecca, R.B., Becky, or sometimes, "Hey, you there!"- whatever you feel more comfortable with.

I'm currently pursuing my Bachelor of Arts in Creative Writing from Southern New Hampshire University. I will be finished in 2020 - so very soon. Let me just say, it's been one long, crazy, winding road - but definitely a road that's worth it. After graduating with my Bachelor's, I plan to find my way to a Master's degree. Either my M.F.A. or a Master's in Journalism. Really, it comes down to whatever my heart tells me in the end. Let's hope my heart is sensible enough to make the right decision.

I am a published writer with The Borgen Project - an online magazine and blog site that helps fight global poverty. I started with Borgen as an intern, then moved on to Feature Writer. Due to life circumstances - and an opportunity that I thought might be life-changing (but was a serious disappointment), I left The Borgen Project and decided to concentrate on my studies until graduation. If you're interested in my work with Borgen, you can check out my portfolio site here. I am also searchable on The Borgen Project's online magazine and blog under "Rebecca Lee".

I began writing at the young age of seven, while I lived in the beautiful Bonn, Germany, right next to the Rhine River. In my second grade class, each student was given the assignment to write a children's book. This was when I first learned what writer's block truly was. However, with a little guidance from an amazing teacher and a little innovation on my part, we came up with a great story entitled "Bluebirds Trick", which donned a hilarious punchline that made the whole class cackle like thieves. It was then that I realized writing was my calling. I wanted to reach people with my words. I wanted to make them laugh, cry, smile, grieve, feel love, feel pain, and everything in between.

From that point on, writing became an outlet for my internal survival. It became the one thing I knew I could always run to; the one thing I knew I always had. I filled journals and learned to type fast so that I could craft my content in a quicker manner than my hands would allow me with a pen and paper. Even so, in my eyes, nothing beats a journal filled with thoughts and doodles, poems and stories of a life that has been lived.

When I was twelve, I had my first poem published in an amateur's poetry book that is now held in The Library of Congress. It was a difficult time for me in the early 2000s (which I'll get to later in my blog), but being published at such a young age showed me that there's a little hope in everything - even, if as I grew up, I didn't always believe that sentiment.

I would love to continue filling up this blog post and letting you all in on my life, my travels, my family, my friends, my pets, every car I've ever driven, etc. But, I feel this introduction has been long enough. Those stories are for another day, another post, another chilly evening.

Thank you for visiting, and I hope you'll be back.

Thanks for Reading,

-R.B. Lee