Marie Myung-Ok Lee’s novel The Evening Hero (Simon & Schuster) is a Goodreads and The Millions Most Anticipated Book of 2022, recommended by Ms. Magazine, Oprah Daily, Real Simple, and is Good Morning America Book Club Buzz Pick. She is an acclaimed Korean American writer whose young adult novel Finding my Voice, is thought to be one of the first contemporary-set Asian American YA novels. One of a handful of American journalists who have been granted a visa to North Korea since the Korean War, she was also the first Fulbright Scholar to Korea in creative writing and has received many honors for her work, including an O. Henry honorable mention, the Best Book Award from the Friends of American Writers, and a New York Foundation for the Arts fiction fellowship. Her stories and essays have been published in The Atlantic, The New York Times, Slate, Salon, Guernica, The Paris Review, The Nation, and The Guardian, among others. She has appeared on CNN’s The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer talking about diplomacy in North Korea and on Dr. Sanjay Gupta’s program Weed, discussing being the first parent to use cannabis for her son with autism. Marie is a founder of the Asian American Writers’ Workshop and teaches creative writing at Columbia, where she is Writer in Residence
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