On Thursday, February 25, the Council of Korean Americans is proud to announce an exclusive fireside chat with New York Times Bestselling Author Chang-Rae Lee, who recently published his latest novel, My Year Abroad. The discussion will be moderated by educator, speaker, and award-winning author of Swimming in Hong Kong, Dr. Stephanie Han.

This event is presented by CKA’s new Arts, Culture, Entertainment, and Sports (ACES) Initiative, which aims to increase awareness of Korean Americans’ accomplishments and support our community’s talents in these respective fields. You can read more about our ACES initiative in this CKA Announcement. Stay tuned for future events and collaborations with noteworthy Korean American creatives and visionaries in the arts, culture, entertainment, and sports.

CKA’s affinity groups are made possible through a partial grant by the Korea Foundation.

Meet the Korean American Authors

Chang-Rae Lee

New York Times Bestselling Author & Pulitzer Prize Finalist

Professor of English, Stanford University

 

Chang-Rae Lee is the author of six novels: Native Speaker (1995), A Gesture Life (1999), Aloft (2004), The Surrendered (2011), On Such a Full Sea (2014), and most recently My Year Abroad (2021). His work has received the PEN/Hemingway Award, the American Book Award, the Heartland Prize in Fiction, and the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award, and has been named finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award. He has also written stories and articles for The New Yorker, The New York Times, Time (Asia), Granta, Conde Nast Traveler, Food & Wine, and many other publications. Chang-Rae also serves as the Ward W. and Priscilla B. Woods Professor in the English Department and Creative Writing Program at Stanford.