Kristen Lee, a junior from Herricks High School, has been named Nassau County’s second teen poet laureate. The teen poet said she has been writing since she was in elementary school, and has since began building a portfolio of poetry, essays and two novels. “I think I have equal love for everything,” Lee said. “Yes, I do write a lot of poetry, but I think it surprises people when I tell them that I'm a prose writer at heart, because that's wha…
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