Writing

WHEN I WAS GROWING UP in Elmhurst, New York, it was a special day when I had enough coins for an Annabelle’s Rocky …

In a lifelong struggle with her shape that spans relationships, career changes, and now a move halfway around the world, Min Jin Lee charts the seismic shifts in her life by the numbers on the scale.

On page 99 of Free Food for Millionaires, my main character Casey Han is smoking on the roof of her friend Ella Shim’s apartment building. It is Sunday morning, and Casey can’t decide whether or not …

When I was growing up in Korea, my dad was a marketing executive—whatever that means. The story went that he used to up and quit his jobs because of his temper. My mother was the local piano teacher, …

When I was growing up, my mother always earned money. In Korea, she taught piano to the local children, and in America, she worked alongside my father at their small wholesale jewelry shop in …

Biblical Illiteracy or Reading the Bestseller. Writers Often Agree That the Bible Is a Good Book. OPINION By MIN JIN LEE

Published in Breeder - Real Life Stories from the New Generation of Mothers

Published in To Be Real, edited by Rebecca Walker

Axis of Happiness won the 2004 Narrative Prize from Narrative Magazine.