Kateema Lee is a Washington D.C. native. Her recent work has been published in print and online journals such as Beltway Poetry Quarterly, African American Review, Gargoyle, Baltimore Review, and others. Kateema is the author of two chapbooks, Almost Invisible and Musings of a Netflix Binge Viewer. Her first collection, Transcript of the Unnamed (September 2020), explores joy, identity, violence, and the “brief, bright lives” of missing and forgotten Black women in Washington, DC.