We have studied energy levels in ⁶³Fe populated in the \beta -decay of ⁶³Mn. A new (preliminary) level scheme of ⁶³Fe includes 10 excited states connected by 21 \gamma -rays. The first excited states at 357 and 451 keV have the level half-lives of 110 ps and 780 ps, respectively. Three states, at 357, 451, and 1132 keV, are strongly \beta -fed with \mathop {\mathgroup \symoperators log}\nolimits ft \sim 5, while there is only a very week \beta -feeding, if any at all, to the ground state. The new results imply that ⁶³Fe departs from a simple shell model structure observed for heavier N=37 isotones of ⁶⁵Ni and ⁶⁷Zn.

PACS numbers: 23.20.Lv, 21.10.Tg, 23.20.–g, 27.50.+e