Marie Myung-Ok Lee is an acclaimed Korean-American writer and author of the novels The Evening Hero (Simon & Schuster, 2022) and Somebody’s Daughter (Beacon Press, 2006). She is one of fifty journalists who’s been granted a visa to North Korea since the Korean War. She was 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 Rhode Island State Council on the Arts fiction fellowship and is a current New York Foundation for the Arts fiction fellow. She has also written many successful Young Adult novels as Marie G. Lee.
