Na Mee is a storyteller and teaching artist. She wants her work to make you feel at home with yourself, with others, and with the world. Na Mee is a 2024 PEN America Emerging Voices fellow, a Kundiman fellow, and three-time Rasmuson Foundation Award recipient. She has received an Alaska Literary Award and her memoir-in-progress was shortlisted for a 2024 Granum Prize. Her piece “Tiger Mom” was nominated by AGNI for Best of the Net. Kundiman, VONA, Hedgebrook, Storyknife and others have also generously supported her work. She is grateful to places like Lit Hub, Feminist Studies, Washington Square Review, The Rumpus, and others for taking good care of her stories and giving them homes. Na Mee is a Nancy Craig Blackburn Fellow and MFA candidate at Randolph College. She lives and loves with her family on Lingít Aaní (aka Juneau, Alaska). Find her at @‌tsu_namee (instagram), yourfriendnamee.bsky.social (blue sky), or www.tsunamee.com.

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POETRY

Reunion (Excerpts)

By NA MEE

I have never done this before, / picked out a hanbok slash been her daughter.