Diana Seo Hyung Lee

Diana Seo Hyung Lee is a New York based writer and translator. Her writing has appeared in Art in America, The Brooklyn Rail, and others. She is an immigrant, born in Seoul, South Korea, raised in Queens, New York, and is a mother of a three-year-old called Mark.

Features• November 8, 2022

A Distance That I Cannot Seem to Close

By Diana Seo Hyung Lee

My quiet mother, my Umma, used to write me letters, then regarding them, say, “I don’t speak well but I can write better. Without…