Elizabeth Eunyoung Lee (she/her), is a Korean American fiction and nonfiction writer based out of Santa Fe, NM. She’s an alumna of Brown University and Institute of Indian American Arts (IAIA), and a former Fulbright scholar, documentary filmmaker, TV producer and massage therapist. Her writing has appeared in The Georgia Review, Pleiades Magazine, Santa Fe Noir, Vestal Review and elsewhere, and has received nominations for a Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net Award, as well as support from Breadloaf, Tin House, Kenyon Writer’s Workshop, StoryStudio Chicago and Storyknife. She currently reads fiction and nonfiction submissions for The Rumpus, co-chairs the southwest region of the AAPI literary organization, Kundiman, brings 12-step meetings to female inmates at the Santa Fe County Adult Correctional Facility, and helps select films for the Santa Fe International Film Festival. She’s looking forward to her first residency at Hedgebrook this October.

She’s hard at work on a family saga and a hybrid memoir, both of which deal with themes of intergenerational trauma, addiction, memory in the body and womanhood.

Her favorite things include eating, fantasizing about what to eat next, belly laughing, playing with her dogs and watching movies. You can follow her at @bluedesertbeth.