About

Google “Jennifer Lee,” and you will discover politicians, filmmakers, artists, and even a porn star. You might assume that Jennifer Lee is an AAPI woman born in the 1970s, during the height of the name Jennifer’s popularity, but that’s not always the case. The commonness of my name lends itself to a certain amount of mystery, anonymity, and misunderstanding.

This Jennifer Lee is the child of Chinese immigrants, the wife of a Korean immigrant, and the mother of three children born and parented across three countries. I am drawn to characters whose identities are fluid and precarious and stories in which diaspora is not a gradual dispersion but a series of multi-dimensional ruptures. My work has appeared in Drunken Boat, Your Impossible Voice, Transpacificism, and the anthology Afterness: Literature from the New Transnational Asia. Visual artist Martha Sakellariou and I have explored the tensions of domesticity and motherhood through a series of interdisciplinary, site-specific art installations: Plat du Jour, The Cubberley Project, and One Home Only: Iterations. I have a BA and MA from Stanford University and an MFA from City University in Hong Kong.