many years, but Lee herself is not adopted. One of her family members is adopted from Korea. She is also one of fifty journalists who have been granted a visa to North Korea since the Korean War. Lee's most recent novel The Evening Hero (2021), from Simon & Schuster, is about the "future of medicine, immigration, and North Korea". Short stories, essays and accolades Her stories and essays have been published in The Atlantic, Witness, The Kenyon Review, TriQuarterly, Newsweek, Slate, Guernica, The Guardian and The New York Times. She has received honors for her work including an O. Henry honorable mention for an adaptation of a chapter from Somebody's Daughter. Lee was a recipient of the MacColl Johnson literature fellowship and 2010 Fiction Fellowship from the Rhode Island State Council on the Arts. She was also a Yaddo, MacDowell Colony, and Virginia Center for the Creative Arts (VCCA) fellow, and a New York Foundation for the Arts fiction fellow. Teaching and personal Lee has served as a National Book Award judge as well as a judge for the PEN/E. O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award. She has taught fiction writing at Yale University, was a Visiting Lecturer in American Studies at her alma mater Brown University, and is also an adjunct professor at Columbia University, where she teaches creative writing in the school's Writing Division. She is also a founder and former Board President of the Asian American Writers' Workshop in New York City. She is married to Karl Jacoby (also a Brown University 1987 graduate), an environmental historian at Columbia University, and lives in New York City. Bibliography Finding My Voice, 1992 If It Hadn't Been for Yoon Jun, 1993 Saying Goodbye, 1994 Necessary Roughness, 1996 F is for Fabuloso, 1999 Somebody's Daughter, 2005 The Evening Hero, 2021 References External links Citation for Marie Lee's current position at Brown University: 1964 births Living people People from Hibbing, Minnesota American writers of Korean descent Brown University faculty American women novelists American essayists American women essayists American women academics 21st-century American women