Margaret Juhae Lee @mjuhae.bsky.social · 29/06/2026Check out Radical Ahjumma's most recent interview with Susan Choi at www.radicalahjumma.com (and sign up for our newsletter). She talked about what she learned at her job as a fact-checker at The New Yorker, the role of research in her work, and her latest novel, Flashlight. 002
Margaret Juhae Lee @mjuhae.bsky.social · 28/04/2026Looking forward to this #AAPI month event @oaklibrary.bsky.social! Part book talk, part oral history workshop, I will discuss how to elicit stories from loved ones, like my grandmother. The interviews I conducted with her before she died form the heart of #StarryField. @melvillehouse.bsky.social 067
Margaret Juhae Lee @mjuhae.bsky.social · 23/04/2026On May 9 at Kepler's Books, I will be teaching a writing workshop with novelist Rosa Kwon Easton on how to tell family stories—as part of Bay Area Writes, an afternoon of workshops presented in collaboration with the Bay Area Book Festival. Register here: www.keplers.org/upcoming-eve... 012
Margaret Juhae Lee @mjuhae.bsky.social · 14/04/2026The first newsletter from Radical Ahjumma: Feminist Writers from the Korean Diaspora is available, featuring an interview with Elaine Kim, the trailblazing scholar, community organizer and the godmother of Asian American Studies. Subscribe at www.radicalahjumma.com to get your copy. It's free! 022
Margaret Juhae Lee @mjuhae.bsky.social · 11/04/2026Sunday! Looking forward to this Lit Quake-sponsored panel at Page Street in SF on the Art of Revision with an amazing slate of writers in a variety of genres. I will share revision tips from my 25-year #StarryField journey. Register here: www.eventbrite.com/e/how-they-d... 012
Margaret Juhae Lee @mjuhae.bsky.social · 15/03/2026Radical Ahjumma does Hawaii! @nancyjooyounkim.bsky.social Hannah Michell and I will be reading at da Shop books in Honolulu on Sunday, April 5 at 3 pm. We will also be at the AAAS conference and the University of Hawaii Manoa. Register for the bookstore event at: www.eventbrite.com/e/da-shop-au... 001
Margaret Juhae Lee @mjuhae.bsky.social · 10/03/2026Revised Spring 2026 event schedule: Hawaii with my Radical Ahjumma crew at the AAAS conference, da Shop books and U of HI Manoa. Bay Area events: revision panel sponsored by @litquake.org, Kepler's workshop on family stories & AAPI month talk at my hometown library. @melvillehouse.bsky.social 003
Margaret Juhae Lee @mjuhae.bsky.social · 23/02/2026Writer 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! 043
Margaret Juhae Lee @mjuhae.bsky.social · 10/02/2026Bay 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...partiful.comRSVP to DICTEE 서포트그룹 / Support Group | PartifulJoin 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... 000
Margaret Juhae Lee @mjuhae.bsky.social · 26/01/2026For 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 000
Margaret Juhae Lee @mjuhae.bsky.social · 21/01/2026I 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 002
Margaret Juhae Lee @mjuhae.bsky.social · 27/11/2025Thanks 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/...scholarworks.sjsu.eduBook Review: Starry Field: A Memoir of Lost History by Margaret Juhae LeeBy Brook McClurg, Published on 10/08/25 160
Margaret Juhae Lee @mjuhae.bsky.social · 07/11/2025Thanks @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...open.substack.comThe Memoir Land Author Questionnaire in Review...A look at a handful of interviews from earlier in the series. 281
Margaret Juhae Lee @mjuhae.bsky.social · 04/11/2025Come 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-...commonwealthclub.orgMother of Methadone and Fighting Against Today’s Addiction CrisisDr. 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... 040
Margaret Juhae Lee @mjuhae.bsky.social · 03/10/2025Thanks 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 032
Margaret Juhae Lee @mjuhae.bsky.social · 29/09/2025The #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...rbmediaglobal.comRBmedia | Starry FieldListen to the audiobook Starry Field, written by Margaret Juhae Lee, narrated by Michelle H. Lee. 042
Margaret Juhae Lee @mjuhae.bsky.social · 22/09/2025Thanks 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 054
Margaret Juhae Lee @mjuhae.bsky.social · 13/09/2025Can'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...pcc.edu2025-26 Carolyn Moore Writing Residents | HARTS (Humanities and Arts) Initiative at PCCThe 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... 012
Margaret Juhae Lee @mjuhae.bsky.social · 13/09/2025Portland 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 022
Margaret Juhae Lee @mjuhae.bsky.social · 20/08/2025Thanks @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 152
Margaret Juhae Lee @mjuhae.bsky.social · 07/06/2025I'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...corporealwriting.comEliciting stories—how to talk to your loved ones about the past w/ Margaret Juhae Lee — August 17th — Corporeal Writing™ - Writing WorkshopsEliciting 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 ... 001
Margaret Juhae Lee @mjuhae.bsky.social · 24/05/2025Thanks 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 022
Margaret Juhae Lee @mjuhae.bsky.social · 14/05/2025Here'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...sfstandard.comThe best books to read this summer, according to bestselling Bay Area authors - The San Francisco StandardEight of our favorite San Francisco authors recommend their favorite summer beach reads. 022
Margaret Juhae Lee @mjuhae.bsky.social · 03/05/2025I never thought I’d be a member of the Korean literary mafia! Milestone moment. Thanks @sungjuahn.bsky.social 120
Margaret Juhae Lee @mjuhae.bsky.social · 17/04/2025Excited 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... 032
Margaret Juhae Lee @mjuhae.bsky.social · 11/04/2025Thanks 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 033
Margaret Juhae Lee @mjuhae.bsky.social · 02/04/2025Come 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 033
Margaret Juhae Lee @mjuhae.bsky.social · 01/04/2025Can'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 032
Margaret Juhae Lee @mjuhae.bsky.social · 21/03/2025Thanks @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... 002
Margaret Juhae Lee @mjuhae.bsky.social · 18/03/2025Chuffed 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.socialkoreanquarterly.orgA granddaughter's quest - Korean Quarterly"Starry Field: A Memoir of a Lost History" ~ By Margaret Juhae Lee 023
Margaret Juhae Lee @mjuhae.bsky.social · 04/03/2025#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 043
Margaret Juhae Lee @mjuhae.bsky.social · 28/02/2025Can'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 053
Margaret Juhae Lee @mjuhae.bsky.social · 19/02/2025Loved 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 000
Margaret Juhae Lee @mjuhae.bsky.social · 05/02/2025The #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. 042
Margaret Juhae Lee @mjuhae.bsky.social · 29/01/2025My 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. 130
Margaret Juhae Lee @mjuhae.bsky.social · 28/01/2025TONIGHT! Join via Zoom at 6 pm. Amazing line up of @thewritersgrotto.bsky.social writers. 020
Margaret Juhae Lee @mjuhae.bsky.social · 23/01/2025Can'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! 085
Margaret Juhae Lee @mjuhae.bsky.social · 17/01/2025Thinking about how I saw Eraserhead as a freshman at UT-Austin, seeking out the weird since I grew up as a suburban Houston kid. And how my friend Anita and I saw Blue Velvet in the middle of the day in a strip mall theater in Austin and feeling so understood and blown away simultaneously. 030
Margaret Juhae Lee @mjuhae.bsky.social · 17/01/20252025 is here and so are a new batch of #StarryField events. This year I'm focusing on talks at universities and libraries, as well as my first event of the year tonight @thewritersgrotto.bsky.social, where I am a member. For more info, please check my website at www.margaretjuhaelee.com/events. 013
Margaret Juhae Lee @mjuhae.bsky.social · 16/01/2025This hit so hard. I don’t get Taylor Swift either. 010
Margaret Juhae Lee @mjuhae.bsky.social · 13/01/2025SF people! This Friday I will be reading from #StarryField at the @thewritersgrotto.bsky.social offices with fellow members Leslie Kirk Campbell, Paul S. Flores and Brad Balukjian. Thanks to Michelle Wallace for organizing. Come join us! There will be refreshments and good cheer. Open to all. 023
Margaret Juhae Lee @mjuhae.bsky.social · 20/12/2024What a great holiday surprise! Thanks @hannahbae.bsky.social and the @sfchronicle.com for including Starry Field on your best of list! datebook.sfchronicle.com/books/best-b...datebook.sfchronicle.comBest of 2024: Don’t miss out on reading these standout booksUncovered history, speculative futures and far-flung settings beckon from an array of writers showing their impressive range. 1133
Margaret Juhae Lee @mjuhae.bsky.social · 14/12/2024Thanks for including #starryfield in this amazing list of coming-of-age stories set in Korea! @melvillehouse.bsky.social 082
Margaret Juhae Lee @mjuhae.bsky.social · 06/12/2024"Mothers only forget when they die." Such a chilling quote in this article about the legacy of the Gwangju massacre and Han Kan's book Human Acts. Necessary context. Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2024/12/06/w...nytimes.comSouth Korea’s Martial Law Declaration Stirs Memories in Gwangju (Gift Article)The last time South Korea imposed martial law, Gwangju endured a deadly crackdown. Han Kang, the Nobel Prize-winning author, told its story in “Human Acts.” 070
Margaret Juhae Lee @mjuhae.bsky.social · 04/12/2024Thanks Amy for reading. I hope #StarryField gave you some context to the events of the last day in Korea 062
Margaret Juhae Lee @mjuhae.bsky.social · 03/12/2024What the hell is happening in South Korea? Another example of history repeating. www.nytimes.com/live/2024/12...nytimes.comSouth Korea President Yoon Declares Martial Law: Live UpdatesPresident Yoon Suk Yeol announced the measures amid a bitter fight with the political opposition. Lawmakers demanded the declaration be canceled, setting up a showdown. 031
Margaret Juhae Lee @mjuhae.bsky.social · 01/12/2024My last event of 2024 will be at the Atherton Library on Tuesday, Dec 10, at 5 pm, where I will be in conversation with @thesusanito.bsky.social. Free copies of Starry Field will be given to the first 50 attendees—thanks San Mateo County Libraries @melvillehouse.bsky.social smcl.org/blogs/post/m...smcl.orgMeet Margaret Juhae Lee, Author of Starry FieldOn Tuesday, December 10, at 5:00 PM, San Mateo County Libraries is excited to host an in-person author talk at Atherton Library with… 042
Margaret Juhae Lee @mjuhae.bsky.social · 30/11/2024For those who need holiday shopping ideas, my publisher @melvillehouse.bsky.social is offering 30% off on all titles, including Starry Field (which is great for anyone interested in family history). I highly recommend the Last Interview series—Bowie, Baldwin, Cobain... mhpbooks.com/books/starry...mhpbooks.comStarry FieldMelville House is an independent publisher with offices in Brooklyn and London. 022
Margaret Juhae Lee @mjuhae.bsky.social · 25/11/2024Thanks @wirobooks.bsky.social for including #StarryField in your "51 Favorite Books of 2024" and to @alicestephens.bsky.social for her wonderful review earlier this year. @melvillehouse.bsky.social 063
Margaret Juhae Lee @mjuhae.bsky.social · 21/11/2024So honored to be awarded an artist residency at Ragdale in Summer 2025! Chicago-area friends, I'd love to see you while I'm there. 062