A person stands in front of a bright yellow-orange wall, wearing a black sequined top with long fringe and large earrings. They have long hair and are smiling slightly.

Julia Lee

Julia Lee is a Korean American writer, scholar, and teacher. Her memoir, Biting the Hand: Growing Up Asian in Black and White America, was published in 2023 (paperback 2024) and was praised by the New York Times, the New Yorker, NPR’s Morning Edition, and the Boston Globe. She is the author of Our Gang: A Racial History of The Little Rascals and The American Slave Narrative and the Victorian Novel, as well as the novel, By The Book, which was published under the pen name Julia Sonneborn. She is a professor of English at Loyola Marymount University, where she teaches Black and Asian American literature. In Spring 2024, she was a Fulbright lecturer in Okinawa, Japan. She lives with her family in Los Angeles.