Thanks @saribotton.bsky.social for featuring my Memoir Land questionnaire in this roundup. I love everything you do and wish we lived closer to each other so we could hang out. @melvillehouse.bsky.social The Memoir Land Author Questionnaire in Review... open.substack.com/pub/memoirla...

Come join me and agent sib @melodyglenn.bsky.social at the Commonwealth Club in SF on Nov. 20, to talk about Mother of Methadone: A Doctor's Quest, a Forgotten History, and a Modern Day Crisis Mother of Methadone and Fighting Against Today’s Addiction Crisis www.commonwealthclub.org/events/2025-...

Thanks to Molly Tompkins for her thoughtful questions in the latest issue of @assayjournal.bsky.social. I met Molly last year while on the #StarryField tour at my alma mater UT-Austin. So honored to meet the next gen of Plan II students. Hook'em. @melvillehouse.bsky.social

The #StarryField audiobook is out on Oct. 7! While initially disappointed that I wasn't allowed to narrate, I am super happy with Michelle H. Lee's narration. She was conscientious and conferred with me. Her Korean is also a million times better than mine. rbmediaglobal.com/audiobook/97...

Thanks to PSU & PCC for sponsoring this reading with my @cmwritershouse.bsky.social roomie @geekgirlgrownup.bsky.social and my @babedylan.bsky.social agent sib @rossshowalter.com! Come see all of us at PSU on October 20 at 6 pm as the #StarryField tour continues. @melvillehouse.bsky.social

Can't wait to head to the PNW next month to @cmwritershouse.bsky.social. Thank you Portland Community College for sponsoring this amazing writing residency. Portland-area friends, I'll be there for most of October so let's hang! 2025-26 Carolyn Moore Writing Residents www.pcc.edu/harts/2025/0...

Portland area folks! I'll be at the Ledding Library in Milwaukie for their Fall Author Series on Wed, October 15, at 6 pm. Would love to see you there. Looking forward to spending some time in the PNW. Who knows, maybe some essential characters in the book might show up! @melvillehouse.bsky.social

Thanks @writersleaguetexas.bsky.social for awarding #StarryField the Nonfiction Discovery Prize for your 2024 awards for books published by Texas authors. You know the saying, you can take the girl out of Texas, but you can't take the Texas out of the girl. Hook'em. @melvillehouse.bsky.social

I'm teaching a class at Corporeal Writing on Eliciting Stores: How to talk to your loved ones about the past. Come join me and learn how I convinced my grandmother to talk about the husband she chose to forget. Register below. www.corporealwriting.com/current-offe...

Thanks Writer'd Digest for including my quote in this writing advice article. The best part of being a writer is the friends you make along the way. I couldn't have made it through the #StarryField publishing process without all of you. @melvillehouse.bsky.social @thewritersgrotto.bsky.social

Here's some summer book recs from Bay Area authors, including me! @melvillehouse.bsky.social The best books to read this summer, according to bestselling Bay Area authors sfstandard.com/2025/05/11/b...

I never thought I’d be a member of the Korean literary mafia! Milestone moment. Thanks @sungjuahn.bsky.social

Excited to be speaking @ucdavis.bsky.social on Thursday, May 1 at 2 pm about #StarryField. Thanks to the East Asian Studies department for inviting me to speak to his students and the wider student body (the public is invited as well). For more info see: eastasian.ucdavis.edu/events/starr...

Thanks to the APIDA Center @sandiegostate.bsky.social for inviting me to speak about #StarryField on April 24. I'll also be leading a workshop on how to talk to family members about the past. @melvillehouse.bsky.social @thewritersgrotto.bsky.social

Come see me and fellow @thewritersgrotto.bsky.social member @doughenderson.bsky.social at the SF Public Library's main branch on Saturday, April 12 at 2 pm. So excited to be reunited with Doug, who read early drafts of #StarryField way back when. @melvillehouse.bsky.social

Can't wait to be in conversation with soul sister and fellow Depressing Memoir support group member @awarazara.bsky.social on Thursday, April 10, at Womb House Books in Oakland. Come join the love fest. @crownpublishing.bsky.social @melvillehouse.bsky.social @thewritersgrotto.bsky.social

Thanks @largeheartedboy.bsky.social for including StarryField on your faves of 2024 list! Making this playlist was one of the highlights of my book promo experience. It brought me back to my college radio DJ roots. @melvillehouse.bsky.social Link here: largeheartedboy.com/2025/03/16/l...

Chuffed that a year after publication, #StarryField is still getting press coverage, this time in the Korean Quarterly. Check out the review here: www.koreanquarterly.org/books/a-gran... @melvillehouse.bsky.social

#AWP205 people- Join Shastri Akella, Gina Apostol, Sabina Murray, Jeff Parker and me on March 29 in LA, where we will talk about how to survive the process when a book takes forever. #StarryField 's journey to publication took over 25 years so I have a lot to say. @melvillehouse.bsky.social

Can't wait to speak at the Redwood City Public Library on Tuesday, March 18 at 6:30 pm in honor of Women's History Month. Even though I began #StarryField to look for information about my grandfather, my grandmother's testimony is what anchors my book. @melvillehouse.bsky.social

Loved speaking with Anne and Sherry for the Perfectly Imperfect Journey podcast (link below) about what it truly means to come home—to a place, to a history, and to oneself. I'm not much of a podcast person but I've loved all of the episodes on this one! Link: perfectlyimperfectjourney.podbean.com

The #StarryField college tour continues! Can't wait to speak at UC Santa Barbara's Multicultural Center on Feb. 26 at 2 pm. Thanks to the East Asia Center, Dept of Asian American Studies, Literature and Mind & the Dept of East Asian Languages and Cultural Studies for sponsoring me.

My resolution for the year is to see more art and tap into my creative side again after spending the past year in book promo mode. Nothing is as soothing to me as getting lost in a Rothko painting. And seeing exhibitions of works by Tamara de Lempicka, Mary Cassatt and Amy Sherald.

TONIGHT! Join via Zoom at 6 pm. Amazing line up of @thewritersgrotto.bsky.social writers.

Can't wait to speak at my alma mater on 2/13 in a full-circle moment. I don't think I would have become a writer if I hadn't been exposed to the liberal arts in the Plan II program. I'll be in convo with my agent sib/fellow memoirist @madelinevosch.bsky.social. Come join us if you are in Austin!

Thinking about how I saw Eraserhead as a freshman at UT-Austin, seeking out the weird since I grew up as a suburban Houston kid. And how my friend Anita and I saw Blue Velvet in the middle of the day in a strip mall theater in Austin and feeling so understood and blown away simultaneously.

2025 is here and so are a new batch of #StarryField events. This year I'm focusing on talks at universities and libraries, as well as my first event of the year tonight @thewritersgrotto.bsky.social, where I am a member. For more info, please check my website at www.margaretjuhaelee.com/events.

This hit so hard. I don’t get Taylor Swift either.

SF people! This Friday I will be reading from #StarryField at the @thewritersgrotto.bsky.social offices with fellow members Leslie Kirk Campbell, Paul S. Flores and Brad Balukjian. Thanks to Michelle Wallace for organizing. Come join us! There will be refreshments and good cheer. Open to all.

What a great holiday surprise! Thanks @hannahbae.bsky.social and the @sfchronicle.com for including Starry Field on your best of list! datebook.sfchronicle.com/books/best-b...

Thanks for including #starryfield in this amazing list of coming-of-age stories set in Korea! @melvillehouse.bsky.social

"Mothers only forget when they die." Such a chilling quote in this article about the legacy of the Gwangju massacre and Han Kan's book Human Acts. Necessary context. Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2024/12/06/w...

Thanks Amy for reading. I hope #StarryField gave you some context to the events of the last day in Korea

What the hell is happening in South Korea? Another example of history repeating. www.nytimes.com/live/2024/12...

My last event of 2024 will be at the Atherton Library on Tuesday, Dec 10, at 5 pm, where I will be in conversation with @thesusanito.bsky.social. Free copies of Starry Field will be given to the first 50 attendees—thanks San Mateo County Libraries @melvillehouse.bsky.social smcl.org/blogs/post/m...

For those who need holiday shopping ideas, my publisher @melvillehouse.bsky.social is offering 30% off on all titles, including Starry Field (which is great for anyone interested in family history). I highly recommend the Last Interview series—Bowie, Baldwin, Cobain... mhpbooks.com/books/starry...

Thanks @wirobooks.bsky.social for including #StarryField in your "51 Favorite Books of 2024" and to @alicestephens.bsky.social for her wonderful review earlier this year. @melvillehouse.bsky.social

So honored to be awarded an artist residency at Ragdale in Summer 2025! Chicago-area friends, I'd love to see you while I'm there.

I had the best time in Austin at the Texas Book Festival with thousands, yes thousands of enthusiastic book lovers, some who drove from surrounding states to attend. Here I am with my new soul sisters—panelist Monica Jimenez and moderator Loures Rodriguez in the Texas Capitol, giving Sotomayor vibes

Come join me at the Texas Book Festival in Austin on Sunday where I will be talking about the "Enduring Legacies of Colonialism" in Starry Field with Monica Jimenez, the author of "Making Never-Never Land: Race and Law in the Creation of Puerto Rico. texasbookfestival.org/schedule/end...

I wanted to share that I was interviewed on @wbur.org's Here & Now show @npr.org yesterday by Deepa Fernandes, who asked such thoughtful questions. Check out the recording and an excerpt from STARRY FIELD here: www.wbur.org/npr/12375813...

The first leg of my book tour for Starry Field: A Memoir of Lost History is set! Thanks so City Lights in San Francisco, Great Good Place for Books in Oakland and Point Reyes Bookstore in Pt. Reyes for hosting! Support independent bookstores. #writingcommunity

One day late solstice photo, Oakland, CA. I slept so well last night.

So happy to share my new author website with all the photos from Starry Field plus more family pics. Check it out at www.margaretjuhaelee.com.

The first review of STARRY FIELD is in! Thanks Kirkus Review: "the result is an engaging, intriguing account of how we discover who we really are and what we might become." www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews...

Brownie worried that he finally killed sharkie

Family portrait. Absolutely uncanny

Absolutely thrilled to reveal the cover of STARRY FIELD: A MEMOIR OF LOST HISTORY (Melville House, 3/5/24). "Starry Field" is the alias my Korean grandfather (whose prison photo is on the cover) used to protest Japanese rule. Preorders available here: www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/741044...

I still don't quite know how to use this app, but here's my final page proofs of Starry Field: A Memoir of Lost History (Melville House, 3/5/24).I will will try and document the crazy process of book publishing for those who are interested.

bye nyc , i love you and all your signage