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Since a young child growing up in a White family and community, JS LEE has sought refuge through art and storytelling. Through her work, she examines trauma survival, transracial adoption, the ill effects of racial isolation, and intersecting marginalization.

Beyond “Everyone Was Falling”, LEE is the author of the novels “Keurium” and “An Ode to the Humans Who’ve Loved and Left Me”, author and illustrator of the latter’s corresponding children’s books “For All the Lives I’ve Loved and Lived” and “For All the Friends I’ve Found”, and the memoir “It Wasn’t Love”. She currently lives in the Bay Area of California.

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