Margaret Juhae Lee
@mjuhae.bsky.social
Author of STARRY FIELD: A Memoir of Lost History (Melville House). Journalist, public speaker, waning soccer mom, enthusiastic dog owner, my own social media manager, Writers Grotto member. www.margaretjuhaelee.com
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...
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The Memoir Land Author Questionnaire in Review...
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The Memoir Land Author Questionnaire in Review...
A look at a handful of interviews from earlier in the series.
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November 7, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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...
The Memoir Land Author Questionnaire in Review...
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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-...
Mother of Methadone and Fighting Against Today’s Addiction Crisis www.commonwealthclub.org/events/2025-...
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...
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November 4, 2025 at 10:47 PM
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-...
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
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
🗣️Desirae Matherly
✏️In Defense of Navel Gazing
🗣️Kathryn Nuernberger
✏️Research as Ritual
🗣️Molly Tompkins
✏️Interview with Margaret Juhae Lee
Read them here:
buff.ly/Sv9yxzt
#AssayJournal #Conversations #Interviews #Nonfiction #NewIssue #MagazineLaunch
October 3, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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
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.
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RBmedia | Starry Field
Listen to the audiobook Starry Field, written by Margaret Juhae Lee, narrated by Michelle H. Lee.
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September 29, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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...
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
September 22, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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
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 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...
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September 13, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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 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
September 13, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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
August 20, 2025 at 9:16 PM
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
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 ...
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June 6, 2025 at 11:47 PM
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
May 24, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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
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 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.
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May 14, 2025 at 1:39 PM
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 sfstandard.com/2025/05/11/b...
I never thought I’d be a member of the Korean literary mafia! Milestone moment. Thanks @sungjuahn.bsky.social
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.
May 3, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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...
April 17, 2025 at 9:52 PM
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
April 11, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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
April 2, 2025 at 7:04 PM
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
April 1, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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...
March 21, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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...
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
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March 18, 2025 at 9:13 PM
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
March 4, 2025 at 7:28 PM
#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
February 28, 2025 at 4:53 AM
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
Link: perfectlyimperfectjourney.podbean.com
February 19, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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
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.
February 5, 2025 at 12:37 AM
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.
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.
January 29, 2025 at 9:31 PM
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.
TONIGHT! Join via Zoom at 6 pm. Amazing line up of @thewritersgrotto.bsky.social writers.
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.
January 28, 2025 at 4:54 PM
TONIGHT! Join via Zoom at 6 pm. Amazing line up of @thewritersgrotto.bsky.social writers.
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!
January 23, 2025 at 12:37 AM
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!