Asian-American female author Marie Lee recently attended the Association for Asian American Studies Conference. While at the conference, Marie observed that many of the academic professionals attending the conference were not fellow creative writers. While many of the Asian American professionals there were professors in Cultural Studies or English, they were not creative writers. With […]
Read the full article by By Martha Vickery in Korean Quarterly The experience of being the only Korean, particularly the only Korean in a high school, is one that many Korean adoptee teens and many second-generation Korean American teens can relate to. It is partly because of author and native Minnesotan Marie Myong-Ok Lee’s description of […]
Although the book is fiction, the main character Ellen experiences what I felt growing up in a non-ethnic community. Melanie shared that she wished she had known at the time that there was so much hate and prejudice in our community.
I keep reading about so many people who have identified with my book Finding My Voice. I am honored to be connecting to a new audience and helping so many find their own voice in a world full of noise. In a recent article in Minnesota Public Radio News (MPRNews) in partnership with Sahan Journal, […]
I’m excited to share the new cover look for my best-selling young adult reader classic, Finding My Voice. I wrote this book because as an Asian American author, growing up there weren’t books that I could identify with that had a Korean girl talking about her experiences. You can read about the cover reveal by […]