photograph by Kristyn Stroble
Creative Writing & Essays
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- “Backyard Politics,” a column on urban farming and beekeeping at Catapult, January 2019 and ongoing.
- “Cartman and the Cost of Health Insurance” Daily Beast, March 9, 2017.
- “Saving Chickens, Saving Myself” Catapult, February 2017.
- “If You Can’t Choose Your Own Clothes, Does It Change Who You Are?” Refinery29, February 17, 2017.
- “Permission to Marry” HYPHEN Magazine, November 2014. Story was a finalist in the Poets and Writers Magazine California Writers Exchange Contest, January 2007
- “I Had a Stroke at 33” BuzzFeed Longform, September 2014. Listed as “13 of our favorite personal essays we published this year”
- “Date and Time of Loss” Sundog Lit, (Letters from) The Road theme issue, September 2014. Nominated for Pushcart Prize. Finalist for Best of the Net 2015 Anthology.
Vouched Books said this was the Best Thing they Read the week of October 3rd, and said:
“Christine Hyung-Oak Lee’s essay “Date and Time of Loss” in Sundog Lit’s Road Issue combines the best of Tobias Wolff’s “Bullet in the Brain” with upfront introspection cuts to the chase. Lee doesn’t mess around. She tells her story, unflinchingly, full knowing she’s picking at old scabs, tracing her fingers over old scars—literally and figuratively, we discover. From a car accident in Seattle to a few years later when her husband tells her, over the phone, that he wants a divorce, Lee’s essay knocks the wind out of you…”
- “Frank and Jindori” AZALEA, Volume 7, May 2014
- “Mint” The Rumpus, March 2014
- “All The Men I Loved” Sundog Lit in honor of Matthew Salesses’ I’m Not Saying, I’m Just Saying book release, February 2013
- “Scarlet” Newport Review, Spring 2013
- “Maps” Guernica, December 2012. Excerpt from novel-in-progress.
- “Interment” Kartika Review, Winter 2011
- “Erasure” Men Undressed: Women Authors Write About Male Sexual Experience, Other Voices/DZANC Books, October 2011. Excerpt from novel-in-progress.
The Chicago Reader reviewed the anthology: “Anxiety also infects some of the more explicit pieces, like “Erasure,” Christine Lee Zilka’s tale of sex during wartime, and Lidia Yuknavitch’s “The Garden of Earthly Delights,” in which an older man (named Bosch, interestingly enough) falls for a pimple-faced boy. Both stories are dirty writing done well.”
- “It’s Been Way Too Long” Yomimono, Spring 2010
- “Arigato” Glimmer Train Fiction Open, Honorable Mention, March 2009
- “Just A Little Feeling Verbsap, May 2005
- “Bile” ZYZZYVA, Fall 2003
Articles & Reviews
- “Intertwined Lives Cast Light on Korean Society” — book review of Yoojin Grace Wuertz’s Everything Belongs To Us, New York Times Book Review, March 13, 2017
- “Literary Exorcism” — book review of Kyung-sook Shin’s The Girl Who Wrote Loneliness, New York Times Book Review, September 18, 2015
- What Happened When I Tried KonMari On My Toddler – BuzzFeed March 11, 2015
- “How To Watch ‘Fresh Off The Boat’ With Your White Boyfriend” BuzzFeed Ideas, February 2015
- The Ethnic Literature Box: an interview with Don Lee — Guernica Magazine June 2012
- Conversation with Krys Lee, an interview – Kartika Review Spring 2012
- Conversation with Catherine Chung, an interview – Kartika Review Spring 2012
- Conversation with Nami Mun, an interview – Kartika Review Fall/Winter 2009
- Conversation with Chang-rae Lee, an interview – Kartika Review Fall/Winter 2009
- Conversation with Peter Ho Davies, an interview – Kartika Review Spring/Summer 2009
- Conversation with Alexander Chee, an interview – Kartika Review Fall/Winter 2008
- Conversation with Randa Jarrar, an interview – Kartika Review Fall/Winter 2008
- Conversation with Yiyun Li, an interview – Kartika Review Summer 2008
- “Alienated” an opinion essay– asia! Magazine 2007
- “The Writing Cage” a feature – asia! Magazine 2006
- “Ramen Around the World” a feature – asia! Magazine 2006
- “The Jewish Mermaid” a feature – asia! Magazine 2006
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