Making Sense
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This will be an interactive 90-minute workshop that allows participants to explore their experience of belonging and relationship in either their current lived environments and/or the broader global biosphere. You will be invited into an embodied multisensory experience of yourself in a world in which humans are just one aspect.
Janice Lee (she/they) is a Korean American writer, teacher, spiritual scholar, and shamanic healer. She is the author of 7 books of fiction, creative nonfiction & poetry, most recently Imagine a Death (Texas Review Press, 2021) and Separation Anxiety (CLASH Books, 2022), a finalist for the 2023 Oregon Book Award. A roundtable, unanimous dreamers chime in, a collaborative novel co-authored with Brenda Iijima that reworlds possible senses of interrelation and personhood, is forthcoming in April 2023 from Meekling Press.
Lee teaches workshops on inherited trauma, healing and writing, bringing together elements from the medicine tradition of the Q’ero, Zen Buddhism (in the tradition of Plum Village and Thich Nhat Hanh), plant & animal medicine, and Korean shamanic ritual. She currently lives in Portland, OR where she is the Operational Creative Director at Corporeal Writing and an Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at Portland State University.
