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Christine Hyung-Oak Lee is the author of the memoir Tell Me Everything You Don't Remember, published by Ecco/HarperCollins in 2017, which was highlighted on NPR's Weekend Edition with Scott Simon and reviewed by the New York Times and others. It was the first illness memoir written by an Asian American and published by a major American publisher. Their fiction and essays appear in the New York Times, BuzzFeed, ZYZZYVA, Guernica, Catapult, and other literary magazines. Lee's work has been honored by Hedgebrook and VONA, where they are current faculty member and board member and a five-time alum. They have taught at various writing workshops and MFA programs, where their mission is to change the landscape of literature. Lee holds a BA from UC Berkeley and an MFA in Creative Writing from Mills College. They are an Essays Editor at the Offing.

When not writing or reading, they can be found inspecting bee hives, quilting, stalking wiener dogs, and/or researching random topics as they occur.