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LeeLee Toggle mobile menu Toggle search field Search for: About Books / Writing Short Stories / Essays Tell Me Everything You Don’t Remember Blog News, Interviews, Reviews, etc. Events Frontyard Politics Contact About Books / Writing Short Stories / Essays Tell Me Everything You Don’t Remember Blog News, Interviews, Reviews, etc. Events Frontyard Politics Contact About photograph by Kristyn Stroble Writer: Fiction, Nonfiction, and Essays My official bio: Lee is the author of a memoir ( TELL ME EVERYTHING YOU DON’T REMEMBER ), which was featured in Self magazine , Time , The New York Times , and NPR’s Weekend Edition with Scott Simon . Her short fiction and essays have appeared in ZYZZYVA , Guernica , The Rumpus , The New York Times , and BuzzFeed , among other publications. She also has an urban farm–you can read about her farm exploits at Backyard Politics or hear her discuss the world through the lens of urban farming at her Frontyard Politics podcast. Born in New York City, Christine earned her undergraduate degree at UC Berkeley and her MFA at Mills College. She has been awarded a residency at Hedgebrook , and her pieces have been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and placed in competitions such as the Poets and Writers’ Magazine Writers Exchange Contest, Glimmer Train Fiction Open, and others. She serves on the board of Urban Adamah , a Jewish community farm. If you would like to order a signed copy of TELL ME EVERYTHING YOU DON’T REMEMBER , you may order it from East Bay Booksellers and specify in the notes section that you would like a signed copy (or two or three) and any customization (if it should be addressed to a particular person). They will then fulfill it with signature. And you would be supporting a local bookstore, which warms my heart. Contact : follow @xtinehlee on twitter instagram email me at xtinehlee AT gmail DOT com contact my literary agent: Ayesha Pande Ayesha Pande Literary www.pandeliterary.com email my agent: ayesha AT pandeliterary DOT com My super-short bio: Wants to be Gryffindor, but is really Hufflepuff. My social media bio: Hufflepuff. Honeybadger. Crisis Unicorn. Nuclear Submarine. Miracle Berry. Writer. Mom. Contralto. Night Cheese Eater. Chicken + Bee Keeper. Memoir TELL ME EVERYTHING YOU DON’T REMEMBER from Ecco / Harper Collins. Novel forthcoming. My honest writer bio : Christine works at a dining room table at which no one actually eats surrounded by piles of teaching materials and student papers that need constant grading and she writes with a needy geriatric wiener dog who smells like corn chip Fritos on her lap and another needy wiener dog with feral survival tendencies who is up to no good somewhere in the kitchen. She should be running and exercising, but instead she is baking cookies and eating them. By herself. In front of her laptop. Trying to revise her novel. She is very pale. 32 Comments Janine September 21, 2014 at 8:49 pm I just read your essay on buzzfeed. Wow. That is all I can say. You are absolutely inspiring in so many ways. Thank you from the bottom of my heart for writing (so beautifully) about your experience. You are an incredibly talented and strong woman. Thank you for writing, and please never stop. Samantha September 21, 2014 at 10:10 pm I echo Janine’s comment- what a frightening thing to read, but thank you for having the courage to write it. Jessica September 21, 2014 at 11:26 pm I also just finished reading your article from buzzfeed. It was so good! You are an amazingly talented writer and I look forward to reading more of your writing. Good luck with your novel…I can’t wait for it to come out! Cp September 22, 2014 at 1:06 am Well, golly. I just read your essay about the stroke. I had a very similar experience three years ago, at age 43. I am awestruck by your ability to describe this experience you had. My experience was so similar I can’t tell you. The perception changes, the fatigue, the sleep, memory, PFO and subsequent closure. So many things. Thank you for writing this, it really is spectacular. Gwen Bell September 22, 2014 at 1:11 am xtinehlee, I read your article earlier today and watched it rocket to the front page and top of HN . Congratulations. On that, on living to scribble on paper and then move those notes into digital form, then pushing publish (after editing) for us to read. Above all, thank you for expressing yourself in what I find to be an honest way. I’ve added a link to my own site. A small thing, but small matters, I reckon. gb Christine Lee (Post author) January 7, 2017 at 10:16 pm Thank you so much, Gwen! My memoir (TELL ME EVERYTHING YOU DON’T REMEMBER) will be published by Ecco /Harper Collins on February 14, 2017! I hope you will buy and read, and that it will live up to the essay that so many people read. Janece M. September 22, 2014 at 2:56 am Christine, I just finished reading your Buzzfeed article. Wow, you are a walking miracle and inspiration! Thank you for being brave enough to share your personal story and journey through such a life altering health condition. I’ve had my share of physical health issues at an early age and your story is so inspiring and gave me affirmation that the human spirit has the strength to work through anything! Thank you and I hope that you continue to grow personally and professionally through your journey ? Aurélie September 22, 2014 at 3:05 am Just read the buzz feed essai. My mind is completely blown by the brutally honest and straight forward writting style. This essai left me with no words, I am still trying to process it. It is beautifully violent. Look forward to reading more. Thanks for sharing. Never stop. Please ? Ally September 22, 2014 at 3:16 am I read your essay on buzzfeed as well. Your story is fascinating & you write so beautifully. I look forward to reading your novel one day. Pamela Herr September 22, 2014 at 4:09 am I just finished reading your essay, I can relate to so many things you wrote. I had a stroke two days after my 23rd birthday in April, 1985, I had brain surgery and was paralyzed on my left side. I was in the hospital for one month .I fought years to rehabilitate and be me again. We have so much in common. I only wish I could put my experience on paper like you. I appreciate your gift and thanks for sharing I know about struggling but looking great on the outside. Lisa Roney September 22, 2014 at 3:06 pm Hi, Christine, I, too, just read your essay on BuzzFeed and wanted to thank you for it. Sorry if my reactions are a tumble–so much comes to mind. First, the obligatory me too.” I had a benign” perimesencephalic subarachnoid brain hemorrhage on November 14, 2010. I was a bit older–50–but not the usual stroke patient, and I also lacked the FAST symptoms (which it seems apply more to ischemic than hemorrhagic strokes) and spent exactly ten days in the hospital. You mentioned not remembering any of the names of those who took care of you, and that struck my heart for you–I was obsessed with learning the names of everyone who treated me, and I was lucky enough to be able to do so. When I filled out the survey card at the end of my hospital stay, I listed every single one of them, though I have forgotten most by now, alas. I still remember sweet Carmelita, who prepped me for my first angiogram when I was so terrified. The following year, I had another whole round of brain symptoms (various drop attacks, dizziness, numbness, etc.) and MRI spots, which they have never fully diagnosed, in spite of a flurry of tests. TIAs? MS? No one knows, so we just wait. About the insensitivity of others, I could go on for pages, but will just send a link to me reading one of my poems about this (published in a chapbook with Finishing Line Press earlier this year): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xu_TykoPcsY . The things that healthy people say to the ill demonstrate in a nutshell the deep ineptitude of humanity. They don’t mean to be cruel, I tell myself. What you say about how your stroke changed your...