Selecting a seashell symbolic of North Carolina was not an easy task, but an even bigger challenge may be finding that shell — intact and in all its glory — on our beaches.
Lee is an associate professor of creative writing at the University of North Carolina-Wilmington. She is the author of Bobcat and Other Stories (2012) and The City is a Rising Tide (2006). Lee won the Danuta Gleed Literary Award in 2012 and the National Magazine Award in 2001.
Selecting a seashell symbolic of North Carolina was not an easy task, but an even bigger challenge may be finding that shell — intact and in all its glory — on our beaches.
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