AboutTina Lee’s Writing

Tina Lee is a Korean-American writer, former actor, and corporate communications veteran based in Brooklyn, NY.

Her publication credits include Joyland, Passengers, River City Journal, Kalliope magazines, and various anthologies. She discovered a love of acting while procrastinating during graduate school. In New York, she has written and performed one-person shows at HERE/Lincoln Center Theatre’s American Living Room series, The New School, Dixon Place, The NuYorican Poets Café, The Kitchen Theatre in Ithaca, NY, PBS, BBC America, Korea Society, and the YWCA. As an actor, she has performed on HBO, Ars Nova Theater Festival, among a multitude of grungy theater spaces in the East Village and Midtown.

Her one-person show, “My Mom Across America”—published as an essay in Drive: Women’s True Stories from the Open Road (Seal Press) and Echoes Upon Echoes: New Korean American Writings (AAWW)—was called “a story of humor and painful misunderstanding” by BBC America.

Her screenplay The Midas Touch (Fluid Motion Theatre & Film Co.) has been accepted in multiple U.S. film festivals. Her two-act play Break in Case of Emergency was a semi-finalist in the Climate Change Festival, Gloucester Stage, and her latest novel was a semi-finalist in Simon and Schuster’s Books Like Us.

Her novel Family Life Love Loss, Inc. was a semi-finalist in the Simon and Shuster’s Books Like Us contest. Her two-act play Break In Case of Emergency was a finalist in the Gloucester Stage’s Water’s Rising Festival.

Tina has a BA from Yale and MFA in Fiction Writing from Sarah Lawrence College. She lives with one husband, three children, and one cat.