At a writer’s conference a lot like AWP, an instructor said to me, pretty ominously, I thought, “Getting your first book published will just be the start of all your troubles.”
Author: Marie Myung-Ok Lee
Marie Myung-Ok Lee is a Korean-American author and essayist. Her work has been published in The New York Times, The Atlantic, Witness, TriQuarterly, The Kenyon Review, and Slate. Lee has been a Yaddo, MacDowell Colony, and VCCA fellow has served as a National Book Award judge and has taught fiction writing at Yale University. She is a founder and former Board President of the Asian American Writers' Workshop, and is an adjunct professor at Columbia University, where she teaches creative writing.