Umar Lee

The STL Stranger 


Work has appeared in The Guardian, Politico, Quartz, The Nation and a variety of other publications. In addition to that work can be read in the St. Louis American. Former columnist for the St. Louis Evening-Whirl and Arch City Chronicle.

Umar Lee has been interviewed on the BBC, Al Jazeera, NPR, i24, MSNBC, and in the New York Times, the Washington Post, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, and other media outlets.

Fiction has appeared in both the St. Louis Noir and St. Louis Anthology collections among other places.

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