Joe Lee
Official Panelist
2023 Participant · Fiction · Southern · Moderator

Joe Lee has a background in radio, television, and journalism and was a radio disc jockey and a television weatherman before becoming a full-time writer and publisher. He is Editor-in-Chief of Dogwood Press, a small but traditional publishing house launched in 2002 with an emphasis on mystery and suspense fiction, and has published fellow Mississippi authors Candace Cox Wheeler, Randy Pierce, Valerie Winn, J. Stephen Beam, and Derringer Award-winning short story author John M. Floyd. A graduate of Mississippi State University, Joe has over 1,000 non-fiction news and feature stories to his credit and has written for several Mississippi newspapers and magazines. Resting Place, the seventh volume of his critically-acclaimed Oakdale series, is Joe's ninth suspense novel. He lives in Brandon, Mississippi, with his family.
Book Title(s)
- Resting Place: A Novel