Editor | Writer | Educator
T.K. Lê (she/her) is an editor, writer, and educator based in Long Beach, CA. She has over a decade of experience writing and editing multi-genre pieces on race, intergenerational trauma, and intergenerational healing. She also has over a decade of experience in education, developing curriculum for and teaching subjects such as Asian American Studies, Ethnic Studies, memoir writing, creative writing, and English as a Second Language.
She is motivated to achieve racial justice through institutional equity, storytelling, community-building, and political organizing. She believes that writing cannot exist without community and strives for a world where everyone is free.
T.K. is currently the Senior Editor of the UCLA Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders Multimedia Textbook project. She also serves as a board member for Viet Rainbow of Orange County, a grassroots-to-nonprofit organization serving LGBTQ Vietnamese Americans and their loved ones throughout Orange County.
She holds a B.A. in Literary Journalism from UCI and an M.A. in Asian American Studies from UCLA.
Follow T.K. on Twitter @tk_le_tired.
Testimonials
“T.K. Lê is a wonderfully thoughtful editor, someone whose feedback always gets to the heart of one’s writing. She is adept at picking out the key thematic strains of someone’s work and makes powerful suggestions that enhance character motivation, structural experimentation, and more. Never didactic or prescriptive, she truly sees your work for what it is, identifying its strengths and unique voice. For newer and aspiring writers, I highly recommend working with T.K!”
“T.K. Lê is a terrific creative writing workshop facilitator. The way she runs her workshops is so full of consideration and intention, for the craft and even more for the participants of the workshops. Her feedback is specific and at once challenges you to grow while also finding delight in your writing. In the workspace, T.K. fostered a sense of community and care from the first day.”
“T.K. co-facilitated a two-day political education and organizing training I participated in a few years ago. She holds space for others with ease, humor, and intention. What stayed with me most is this moment during a sharing activity where T.K. set the tone by telling her own story of feeling connected to movement by ancestors. The dignity, anger, and love for community she shared resonated in my body and sustained me for a long time after the training was over. She knows instinctively how to move with her own spirit and brings people around her to alive our spirit, too.”