Mirinae Lee
Mirinae Lee was born and grew up in Seoul. Her short fiction appears in the Antioch Review, Meridian, Black Warrior Review, and Pleiades. She received the 2018 Editors’ Prize in fiction from Meridian and the Esther MK Cheung Memorial Prize from the University of Hong Kong.
Reading List
Bring Down the House
We seldom slept with a roof covering our heads. Starlight always lingered above our frowned faces, rapt in sleep, as the only choice of our nightly shelter was abandoned houses brought down by fire. Despite the nocturnal chill gushing through the mangled ceiling, we slept well. We ate what we could. We survived. We, during […]
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Three Questions for Mirinae Lee about her Debut Novel
Mirinae Lee, author of “Bring Down the House” from Volume 70.1, published her debut novel, 8 Lives of a Century-Old Trickster, on June 13th, 2023. Here, she responds to questions about the book and her writing process. Can you tell me the story of your forthcoming book? When did you start working on […]
One Woman, Eight Lives
Seulmi Lee on the genesis of her novel, 8 Lives of a Century-Old Trickster, excerpted in our Fall 2020 Issue