JANICE LEE is a Korean-American writer, editor, publisher, and shamanic healer. She is the author of 7 books of fiction, creative nonfiction, & poetry, most recently:
Reconsolidation (Penny-Ante Editions, 2015),
The Sky Isn’t Blue (Civil Coping Mechanisms, 2016),
Imagine a Death (The Operating System, 2021), and
Separation Anxiety (CLASH Books, 2022).
She writes about interspecies communication, plants & personhood, the filmic long take, slowness, the apocalypse, architectural spaces, inherited trauma, and the concept of
han in Korean culture, and asks the question, how do we hold space open while maintaining intimacy? She combines shamanic and energetic healing with plant & animal medicine and teaches workshops on inherited trauma, healing, and writing.
She is Founder & Executive Editor of
Entropy, Co-Publisher at Civil Coping Mechanisms, Contributing Editor at
Fanzine, and Co-Founder of The Accomplices LLC. She currently lives in Portland, OR where she is an Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at Portland State University.
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