EVENTS
January 17, 2025- Reading and Meeting at the Writers’ Grotto, with Leslie Kirk Campbell, Paul S. Flores and Brad Balukjian, San Francisco, 5 to 7 pm
February 13, 2025- Joynes Reading Room Speaker Series, Plan II Honors Program, in partnership with the Center for East Asian Studies and the Center for Asian American Studies, The University of Texas at Austin, Carothers Residence Hall (CRD007), 5 pm.
February 26, 2025- Starry Field: A Memoir of Lost History with Margaret Juhae Lee, sponsored by the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultural Studies, East Asia Center, Department of Asian American Studies, and Literature and Mind, University of California at Santa Barbara, Multicultural Center Theater, 2 pm
March 3, 2025- Starry Field discussion, The Korean American Experience course, The Young Oak Kim Center for Korean American Studies, University of California at Riverside, 12:30 pm (online)
March 18, 2025- Author Margaret Juhae Lee- Starry Field: A Memoir of Lost History, California Author Series, Redwood City Downtown Library, Redwood City, CA, 6:30 pm
March 29, 2025- When a Book Takes Forever to Write—How to Survive the Process, AWP Conference, panelist, Los Angeles, CA, 10:35 am
April 10, 2025- Zara Chowdhary, author of The Lucky Ones: A Memoir, in conversation with Margaret Juhae Lee, Womb House Books, Oakland, CA, 7 pm, register here
April 12, 2025- Author Margaret Juhae Lee in conversation with Doug Henderson,, San Francisco Public Library main branch, Chinese Center Exhibit Space - 3rd Fl, 2 pm
April 24, 2025- Author Talk: Margaret Juhae Lee, Asian Pacific Islander Desi American (APIDA) Resource Center, Temple Mayor, San Diego State University, 11 am to 1 pm
May 1, 2025- Starry Field: A Memoir of Lost History, Department of East Asian Studies, Hoagland Hall 113, University of California at Davis, 2 pm
recorded events
Starry Field Book Launch in conversation with Eirinie Carson, City Lights Booksellers, San Francisco, CA, March 5, 2024
Memoir Starry Field tells an uncovered history in colonial Korea, NPR, Here & Now, March 11, 2024
Starry Field with Margaret Juhae Lee and Grace M. Cho, Korea Society, New York, NY, March 27, 2024
Highlights from Starry Field and KCCEBs, Korean Community Center of the East Bay, San Leandro, CA, June 11, 2024
Writing about Intergenerational Trauma with Margaret Juhae Lee, You Tube: Writing Your Resilience, episode 37, Sept. 12, 2024
How Memoirists Perform Research, Litquake 2024, C-SPAN Book TV, October 12, 2024
Past Events
December 10, 2024- Meet Margaret Juhae Lee, author of Starry Field: A Memoir of Lost History, in conversation with Susan Ito, Atherton Library, San Mateo County Libraries, Atherton, CA, 5 pm
November 17, 2024- Enduring Legacies of Colonialism, with Mónica A. Jiménez, Texas Book Festival, Texas Capitol Extension Room: E2.016, Austin, TX, 11:30 am
October 17, 2024- Writing Our Lineages: Solace and Sisterhood in Memoir, with Tessa Hulls and Zara Chowdhary, Wisconsin Book Festival, Madison Central Library, Madison, WI, 5:30 pm
October 16, 2024- Across the Ocean: Digging the Archives and Remembering the Korean Past, University of Southern California, Doheny Memorial Library, Friends of the Library Lecture Hall, Los Angeles, CA, 12 pm
October 13, 2024- Subterfuge and Secrets: Memoirists Who Go Undercover to Learn the Truth, with Susan Ito, Grace Loh Prasad and Leslie Absher, Litquake, San Francisco Public Library, San Francisco, CA, 4 pm
September 19, 2024- In conversation with Hyeseung Song, author of Docile: Memoirs of a Not-So-Perfect Asian Girl, Womb House Books, Oakland, CA, 6:30 pm
September 14, 2024- Cosmic Kinship: Asian American Literary Festival Bay Area Bookfair, Chinese Culture Center of San Francisco, 4-7 pm
September 12, 2024- Starry Field reading, in conversation with Jody Ulate, Steinbeck Center, San Jose State University, sponsored by the English Department and Asian American Literature: Discourses & Pedagogies, San Jose, CA, 6:30 pm
July 7, 2024- Radical Ahjumma: Feminist Books from the Korean Diaspora, panel discussion with Nancy Jooyoun Kim and Hannah Michell, moderated by S. Isabel Choi, Wombhouse Books, Oakland, CA, 7 pm.
June 23, 2024- Vintage Bookstore and Wine Bar, in conversation with Bo Hee Moon, Austin TX, 4 pm.
June 21-23, 2024- Writers’ League of Texas Agents and Editors Conference, panelist for memoir and debut author sessions, Austin TX.
June 11, 2024- Korean Community Center of the East Bay, in conversation with Dave Young Kim, San Leandro, CA, 7 pm
June 7, 2024- “Writing from Past to Present,” with Zachary Rogow, MFA Creative Writing Program, Dominican University of California, San Rafael, CA, 3:30 to 5 pm
May 17, 2024- St. Paul Towers, AAPI Month speaker, Oakland, CA, 4 pm.
May 4, 2024- The Book Jewel, in conversation with Rose Andersen, Los Angeles, CA, 3 pm.
May 2, 2024- UCLA, Transnational Gender and Labor Working Group and the Center for Korean Studies, Rolfe 3126, Los Angeles, CA, 5 pm. POSTPONED.
April 28, 2024- Litquake/LitCamp, “How They Did It: High Stakes Memoir” panel, Page Street San Francisco, CA, 3 pm.
April 17, 2024- Third Place Books, Ravenna, in conversation with Arlene Kim, Seattle, WA, 7 pm
April 16, 2024- Eagle Harbor Book Company, in conversation with Carol Smith, Bainbridge Island, WA, 6:30 pm
April 14, 2024- Powell’s City of Books, in conversation with Joon Ae Haworth-Kaufka, Portland, OR, 7 pm
March 30, 2024- Amherst Books, in conversation with Sabina Murray, Amherst, MA, 6 pm
March 27, 2024- Korea Society, in conversation with Grace M. Cho, New York, NY, 6:30 pm
March 23, 2024- Dance Palace with Tessa Hulls, author of Feeding Ghosts, sponsored by Mesa Refuge and Pt. Reyes Bookstore, Pt. Reyes, CA, 2 pm
March 15, 2024- Great Good Place for Books, in conversation with Alex Green, Oakland, CA, 7 pm
March 5, 2024- Starry Field Book Launch, in conversation with Eirinie Carson, City Lights Booksellers, San Francisco, CA, 7 pm
March 1, 2024- Korean American Bar Association of Northern California Gala, San Francisco, CA, 6 pm
Feb. 11-14, 2024- Winter Institute 2024, American Booksellers Association. Featured Melville House author, Cincinnati, OH
Feb. 7-10, 2024- The Stages of Writing and Publishing Memoir, AWP Conference, presenter, Kansas City, MO
Nov. 2, 2023- Speaker, Fall Program for First Semester, College of Letters and Science, University of California, Berkeley
Oct. 26, 2023- Mineral School Presents: Margaret Juhae Lee, Mineral, WA
March 10, 2023- Writing the Investigative Memoir: Lessons Learned from Writers Who Dunnit, AWP conference, presenter, Seattle, WA