I write about the gap between what we say and what we live: in families, in institutions, in ourselves.
Debut autofiction forthcoming. New essays at The Internal Audit.
Essays
The Internal Audit is my Substack publication, a series of essays examining the gap between stated values and lived reality in families, institutions, and the self. Subjects range from generational inheritance and the body keeping the record to institutional honesty and the architecture of small refusals. New essays appear roughly every two weeks.
The Substack is the public-facing companion to my forthcoming autofiction.
What I Refused to Pass Down
An autofiction about generational inheritance, institutional honesty, and what it takes to refuse the patterns we were raised in. Set across Australia, China, Hong Kong, Singapore, the United Kingdom, and the United States, the book traces the formation and dismantling of a self built to survive a household where stated values and lived reality did not match. Representation and publication details to follow.
About K.S. Lee
K.S. Lee writes about the architecture of inheritance: what families, institutions, and selves pass forward without examining. Her work draws on twenty years inside global brand and communications and on a life that moved between Australia, China, Hong Kong, the United Kingdom, the United States, and Singapore, where she now lives with her family.
Her debut autofiction, What I Refused to Pass Down, is forthcoming. New essays appear at The Internal Audit.