Margaret Juhae Lee

Margaret Juhae Lee is the author of Starry Field: A Memoir of Lost History (Melville House), which was published in 2024. A former editor at The Nation magazine, she received a Bunting Fellowship from Harvard University and a Korean Studies Fellowship from the Korea Foundation. She attended the Tin House and Writer’s Hotel writing workshops and was awarded residences at Mesa Refuge, Anderson Center and the Mineral School. Her articles have been published in The Nation, Newsday, Elle, ARTnews, Writer’s Digest and The Rumpus. The Houston native and graduate of the University of Texas at Austin now lives in Oakland with her family and Brownie, a rescue dog from Korea.