Stella Lei's work appears in Narrative Magazine, CRAFT, Four Way Review and elsewhere. Her writing has been nominated for Best of the Net, Best Small Fictions, Best Microfiction, Best New Poets, and the Pushcart Prize, as well as selected for the Granum Foundation Prize and Wigleaf Top 50 longlists. Her work has also received support from the Sundress Academy for the Arts through their writers' residency program. Her debut prose chapbook, Inheritances of Hunger, was published by River Glass Books in 2022. She is a Reader for GASHER Press​, and a Poetry Reader for Split Lip Magazine. She is currently pursuing her bachelor's in Comparative Literature at Harvard University.