Lee Williams was born during a blinding snowstorm in the back of her grandparents' small-frame home in Lexington, Oklahoma. Her grandmother was one of her greatest influences, religiously and poetically. In January 1966 during a huge snowstorm, a nineteen-year-old girl became Mrs. Howard Williams and moved to Iowa. She had a daughter and a son and began writing poetry and children's stories. She has been a graphic artist for twenty-five years in Arkansas and Oklahoma. Her fine art works have won many awards and are in private collections in most of the United States, as well as several foreign countries. While working for OTRD, Lee painted several large murals for some of Oklahoma's State Parks. Lee received a BA in Graphic Art and Design from UCO in Edmond, Oklahoma.