About this speaker
Questioning is how Joyce Lee grows, learns, writes, and teaches. Joyce Lee has over thirteen years of classroom experience teaching everything from erotic poetry to ESL in four countries with ages ranging from 5 to 88. She has been a paid speaker and freelance instructor for over a decade now in places such as (but not limited to) Facebook Headquarters, UC Berkeley, Stanford University, Google Headquarters, and Third World Press. Joyce is the founder of JL Soul Camp in Sonoma County, California. JL Soul Camp is an annual, all expenses paid, Black and Indigenous womyn/non-male, five-day healing retreat that utilizes creativity and community to inform, heal, and support. Black and First Nation healers and those healing conduct paid workshops and facilitate internal and outdoor reconnections with nature. Joyce is a professional storyteller on WNYC’s Snap Judgment (one of the top five storytelling podcasts in the nation) and has spent the pandemic midwifing others in the completion of their literary projects, as well as teaching college students Oral Interpretation of Literature as an adjunct professor at her alma mater, Jamestown University. Among other things, Joyce is also a mentor and volunteer at the Minnesota Prison Writing Program and the Minnesota Book Festival. She will graduate with her MFA in poetry and creative writing from Hamline University this coming May (2023).
