Marie Lee

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Marie Myung-Ok Lee (born 1964, Hibbing, Minnesota) is an American author and essayist. Her stories and essays have been published in Witness, The Kenyon Review, Newsweek, and the New York Times. She has received many honors for her work, including an O. Henry honorable mention for an adaptation of a chapter from Somebody's Daughter. Lee has been a MacDowell Colony fellow, has served as a National Book Award judge, and has taught fiction writing at Yale University. She is a founder of the Asian American Writers' Workshop. She is currently a Visiting Lecturer at the Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in the Americas at Brown University.

Lee's most recent novel, Somebody's Daughter, is based on her year as a Fulbright Scholar to Korea, taking oral histories of Korean birth mothers. She has been involved in the adoptee community for many years, but Lee herself is not adopted. One of her family members is adopted from Korea.