Margaret Juhae Lee

Writer friends! I will be at AWP in Baltimore with these amazing folks—@abelletm.bsky.social, Rosa Kwon Easton, @aaronaceves.bsky.social and Gloria Munoz)—talking about our debut book experiences. Looking forward to catching up old friends and making new ones. DM if you want to have coffee!

RSVP to DICTEE 서포트그룹 / Support Group | Partiful Join Radical Ahjumma, a feminist collective of writers from the Korean diaspora, for this exclusive tour of the “Theresa Hak Kyung Cha: Multiple Offerings” exhibit led by BAMPFA Senior Curator Victori...

Bay Area folks! Radical Ahjumma (www.radicalahjumma.com) is hosting a special tour of the Theresa Hak Kyung Cha retrospective @bampfa.bsky.social on Feb. 28. Exhibition curator Victoria Song will be our guide! Sign up is below. $9/person. Come join us!
partiful.com/e/hYPDXjFxgD...

For those of you who want to help our neighbors in the Twin Cities, a friend on the front lines recommended donating to these two organizations:

Monarca Rapid Response Line (monarcamn.org)

Immigrant Defense Network (immigrantdefensenetwork.org)

Photo: vigil for Alex Pretti, Brandon Bell/GINA

I wanted to share my 2026 event schedule with events at Womb House Books, AWP, AAAS Conference, UH Manoa Creative Writing Department and Oakland Public Library. For more info, check out my website at www.margaretjuhaelee.com/events @melvillehouse.bsky.social

Thanks to the Asian American Literature: Discourses and Pedagogies journal for this incredibly insightful review of #StarryField by Brook McClurg.

"Book Review: Starry Field: A Memoir of Lost History by Margaret Juhae " by Brook McClurg scholarworks.sjsu.edu/aaldp/vol13/...

The Memoir Land Author Questionnaire in Review... A look at a handful of interviews from earlier in the series.

Thanks @saribotton.bsky.social for featuring my Memoir Land questionnaire in this roundup. I love everything you do and wish we lived closer to each other so we could hang out. @melvillehouse.bsky.social

The Memoir Land Author Questionnaire in Review...
open.substack.com/pub/memoirla...

Mother of Methadone and Fighting Against Today’s Addiction Crisis Dr. Melody Glenn was a burned-out emergency physician who had grown to resent the large population of opioid-dependent patients passing through her ER. While working at a methadone clinic, she realize...

Come join me and agent sib @melodyglenn.bsky.social at the Commonwealth Club in SF on Nov. 20, to talk about Mother of Methadone: A Doctor's Quest, a Forgotten History, and a Modern Day Crisis

Mother of Methadone and Fighting Against Today’s Addiction Crisis www.commonwealthclub.org/events/2025-...

Thanks to Molly Tompkins for her thoughtful questions in the latest issue of @assayjournal.bsky.social. I met Molly last year while on the #StarryField tour at my alma mater UT-Austin. So honored to meet the next gen of Plan II students. Hook'em. @melvillehouse.bsky.social

RBmedia | Starry Field Listen to the audiobook Starry Field, written by Margaret Juhae Lee, narrated by Michelle H. Lee.

The #StarryField audiobook is out on Oct. 7! While initially disappointed that I wasn't allowed to narrate, I am super happy with Michelle H. Lee's narration. She was conscientious and conferred with me. Her Korean is also a million times better than mine.

rbmediaglobal.com/audiobook/97...

Thanks to PSU & PCC for sponsoring this reading with my @cmwritershouse.bsky.social roomie @geekgirlgrownup.bsky.social and my @babedylan.bsky.social agent sib @rossshowalter.com! Come see all of us at PSU on October 20 at 6 pm as the #StarryField tour continues. @melvillehouse.bsky.social

2025-26 Carolyn Moore Writing Residents | HARTS (Humanities and Arts) Initiative at PCC The Carolyn Moore Writing Residency consists of two-to-eight-week terms at the Carolyn Moore Writers House in Tigard, Oregon, offering established and emerging writers concentrated time to focus on de...

Can't wait to head to the PNW next month to @cmwritershouse.bsky.social. Thank you Portland Community College for sponsoring this amazing writing residency. Portland-area friends, I'll be there for most of October so let's hang!

2025-26 Carolyn Moore Writing Residents www.pcc.edu/harts/2025/0...

Portland area folks! I'll be at the Ledding Library in Milwaukie for their Fall Author Series on Wed, October 15, at 6 pm. Would love to see you there. Looking forward to spending some time in the PNW. Who knows, maybe some essential characters in the book might show up! @melvillehouse.bsky.social

Thanks @writersleaguetexas.bsky.social for awarding #StarryField the Nonfiction Discovery Prize for your 2024 awards for books published by Texas authors. You know the saying, you can take the girl out of Texas, but you can't take the Texas out of the girl. Hook'em. @melvillehouse.bsky.social

Eliciting stories—how to talk to your loved ones about the past w/ Margaret Juhae Lee — August 17th — Corporeal Writing™ - Writing Workshops Eliciting stories—how to talk to your loved ones about the past w/ Margaret Juhae Lee Sunday August 17th, 2025 11AM—1PM Pacific over Zoom (A recording will be made available to all registrants for ...

I'm teaching a class at Corporeal Writing on Eliciting Stores: How to talk to your loved ones about the past. Come join me and learn how I convinced my grandmother to talk about the husband she chose to forget. Register below. www.corporealwriting.com/current-offe...

Thanks Writer'd Digest for including my quote in this writing advice article. The best part of being a writer is the friends you make along the way. I couldn't have made it through the #StarryField publishing process without all of you. @melvillehouse.bsky.social @thewritersgrotto.bsky.social

The best books to read this summer, according to bestselling Bay Area authors - The San Francisco Standard Eight of our favorite San Francisco authors recommend their favorite summer beach reads.

Here's some summer book recs from Bay Area authors, including me! @melvillehouse.bsky.social

The best books to read this summer, according to bestselling Bay Area authors sfstandard.com/2025/05/11/b...

Thanks so much for reading! And yes, Halmoni is the star of the show.

I never thought I’d be a member of the Korean literary mafia! Milestone moment. Thanks @sungjuahn.bsky.social

Excited to be speaking @ucdavis.bsky.social on Thursday, May 1 at 2 pm about #StarryField. Thanks to the East Asian Studies department for inviting me to speak to his students and the wider student body (the public is invited as well). For more info see: eastasian.ucdavis.edu/events/starr...

Thanks to the APIDA Center @sandiegostate.bsky.social for inviting me to speak about #StarryField on April 24. I'll also be leading a workshop on how to talk to family members about the past. @melvillehouse.bsky.social @thewritersgrotto.bsky.social

Come see me and fellow @thewritersgrotto.bsky.social member @doughenderson.bsky.social at the SF Public Library's main branch on Saturday, April 12 at 2 pm. So excited to be reunited with Doug, who read early drafts of #StarryField way back when. @melvillehouse.bsky.social

Can't wait to be in conversation with soul sister and fellow Depressing Memoir support group member @awarazara.bsky.social on Thursday, April 10, at Womb House Books in Oakland. Come join the love fest. @crownpublishing.bsky.social @melvillehouse.bsky.social @thewritersgrotto.bsky.social

Thanks @largeheartedboy.bsky.social for including StarryField on your faves of 2024 list! Making this playlist was one of the highlights of my book promo experience. It brought me back to my college radio DJ roots. @melvillehouse.bsky.social Link here: largeheartedboy.com/2025/03/16/l...

A granddaughter's quest - Korean Quarterly "Starry Field: A Memoir of a Lost History" ~ By Margaret Juhae Lee

Chuffed that a year after publication, #StarryField is still getting press coverage, this time in the Korean Quarterly. Check out the review here: www.koreanquarterly.org/books/a-gran... @melvillehouse.bsky.social

#AWP205 people- Join Shastri Akella, Gina Apostol, Sabina Murray, Jeff Parker and me on March 29 in LA, where we will talk about how to survive the process when a book takes forever. #StarryField 's journey to publication took over 25 years so I have a lot to say. @melvillehouse.bsky.social

Can't wait to speak at the Redwood City Public Library on Tuesday, March 18 at 6:30 pm in honor of Women's History Month. Even though I began #StarryField to look for information about my grandfather, my grandmother's testimony is what anchors my book. @melvillehouse.bsky.social

Loved speaking with Anne and Sherry for the Perfectly Imperfect Journey podcast (link below) about what it truly means to come home—to a place, to a history, and to oneself. I'm not much of a podcast person but I've loved all of the episodes on this one!

Link: perfectlyimperfectjourney.podbean.com

The #StarryField college tour continues! Can't wait to speak at UC Santa Barbara's Multicultural Center on Feb. 26 at 2 pm. Thanks to the East Asia Center, Dept of Asian American Studies, Literature and Mind & the Dept of East Asian Languages and Cultural Studies for sponsoring me.

I'd love to, but it might not be until the fall.

My resolution for the year is to see more art and tap into my creative side again after spending the past year in book promo mode. Nothing is as soothing to me as getting lost in a Rothko painting. And seeing exhibitions of works by Tamara de Lempicka, Mary Cassatt and Amy Sherald.