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Margaret Juhae Lee @mjuhae.bsky.social · 12d

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

Assay: A Journal of Nonfiction Studies @assayjournal.bsky.social · 14d

The conversations of Assay Issue 12.1!

🗣️Desirae Matherly
✏️In Defense of Navel Gazing

🗣️Kathryn Nuernberger
✏️Research as Ritual

🗣️Molly Tompkins
✏️Interview with Margaret Juhae Lee

Read them here:
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#AssayJournal #Conversations #Interviews #Nonfiction #NewIssue #MagazineLaunch

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Margaret Juhae Lee @mjuhae.bsky.social · 16d

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...

RBmedia | Starry Field

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

rbmediaglobal.com

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Margaret Juhae Lee @mjuhae.bsky.social · 23d

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

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Margaret Juhae Lee @mjuhae.bsky.social · Sep 13

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...

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...

www.pcc.edu

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Margaret Juhae Lee @mjuhae.bsky.social · Sep 13

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

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Margaret Juhae Lee @mjuhae.bsky.social · Aug 20

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

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Margaret Juhae Lee @mjuhae.bsky.social · Jun 6

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...

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 ...

www.corporealwriting.com

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Margaret Juhae Lee @mjuhae.bsky.social · May 24

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

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Margaret Juhae Lee @mjuhae.bsky.social · May 14

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...

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.

sfstandard.com

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Margaret Juhae Lee @mjuhae.bsky.social · May 12

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

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Margaret Juhae Lee @mjuhae.bsky.social · May 3

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

Sung Ju Ahn 안성주 @sungjuahn.bsky.social · May 2

This weekend I'm immersed in the amazing books of the Korean literary mafia: @alexanderchee.bsky.social's How to Write an Autobiographical Novel, @jiminhanwriter.bsky.social's The Apology, and @mjuhae.bsky.social's Starry Field.

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Margaret Juhae Lee @mjuhae.bsky.social · Apr 17

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...

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Margaret Juhae Lee @mjuhae.bsky.social · Apr 11

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

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Margaret Juhae Lee @mjuhae.bsky.social · Apr 2

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

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Margaret Juhae Lee @mjuhae.bsky.social · Apr 1

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

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Margaret Juhae Lee @mjuhae.bsky.social · Mar 21

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...

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Margaret Juhae Lee @mjuhae.bsky.social · Mar 18

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

A granddaughter's quest - Korean Quarterly

"Starry Field: A Memoir of a Lost History" ~ By Margaret Juhae Lee

www.koreanquarterly.org

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Margaret Juhae Lee @mjuhae.bsky.social · Mar 4

#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

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Margaret Juhae Lee @mjuhae.bsky.social · Feb 28

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

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Margaret Juhae Lee @mjuhae.bsky.social · Feb 19

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

Margaret Juhae Lee @mjuhae.bsky.social · Feb 5

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.

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Margaret Juhae Lee @mjuhae.bsky.social · Feb 4

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

Margaret Juhae Lee @mjuhae.bsky.social · Jan 29

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.

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Margaret Juhae Lee @mjuhae.bsky.social · Jan 28

TONIGHT! Join via Zoom at 6 pm. Amazing line up of @thewritersgrotto.bsky.social writers.

The Writers Grotto @thewritersgrotto.bsky.social · Jan 24

Join us for Grotto Nights @ the Library: Words of Resistance on Tuesday, January 28 from 6 to 7:30 pm via Zoom. With @anoopjudge.bsky.social, Tara Dorabji and Jennifer Christgau Aquino. Register via QR code.

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Margaret Juhae Lee @mjuhae.bsky.social · Jan 23

Can't wait to speak at my alma mater on 2/13 in a full-circle moment. I don't think I would have become a writer if I hadn't been exposed to the liberal arts in the Plan II program. I'll be in convo with my agent sib/fellow memoirist @madelinevosch.bsky.social. Come join us if you are in Austin!

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