Victoria Lee author page

Victoria Lee biography

Victoria Lee is an author of young adult fantasy, science fiction and thriller fiction. Lee has a PhD in psychology, specialising in cognitive-affective neuroscience, and studied the ways emotion and cognition interact before establishing a career as a novelist.

Lee’s debut novel, The Fever King, was published by Skyscape in 2019. The first book in the Feverwake series follows sixteen-year-old Noam Álvaro, the survivor of a viral outbreak that gives him the ability to control technology, in a future society shaped by magic, political conflict and the treatment of refugees. The story continued in The Electric Heir, published by Skyscape in 2020.

Lee’s standalone YA novel A Lesson in Vengeance was published by Delacorte Press in 2021, with a UK edition from Titan Books in 2022. Set at the fictional Dalloway School, it follows Felicity Morrow after she returns to the boarding school following the death of her girlfriend. When novelist Ellis Haley asks for her help investigating five former students associated with the school’s history of witchcraft, their research develops into a dark mystery involving Dalloway’s past.

A Lesson in Vengeance received starred reviews from Publishers Weekly, Booklist and School Library Journal. It was selected as one of School Library Journal’s Best Books of 2021 and was later nominated for the 2023 Flume: New Hampshire Teen Reader’s Choice Award.