A nun of the Olivetan Benedictine Sisters of Busan and a poet. Born in 1945 in Yanggu, Gangwon-do, Lee entered the convent in 1964. She made her first vows in 1968 and perpetual vows in 1976. She graduated from Saint Louis University in the Philippines with a degree in English Literature and received her PhD in Religious Studies at Sogang University. She is the winner of the 5th Cheon Sang-byeong Poetry Prize and the 26th Korean Catholic Literature Award.

Researcher of the Intellectual History, Professor of Political Science and Diplomacy, Seoul National University. Formerly a professor at Bryn Mawr University. His research interests include East Asian political thought history and comparative political thought history. He has published A History of Chinese Political Thought (2017), a broad summary of his research on Chinese political thought history. With this book as a template to expand the content and change the style for Korean readers, he published another book of the same title in Korea in 2021. He also published a collection of prose, Looking at the Futility of Life (2022).

재미있는 이야기와 멋진 사람들의 세계에 다가가고 싶어 방송작가로 사회생활을 시작했고 [매거진 t], [아이즈] 등에서 10여 년간 대중문화 기자로 일했다. 언제나 재미있는 글을 쓰고 싶었지만 늘 뜻대로 되지는 않았고, 2015년 이후 일련의 사건들을 계기로 여성으로서 한국 대중문화를 어떻게 볼 것인지 고민하다가 『괜찮지 않습니다』, 『엄마는 되지 않기로 했습니다』 등을 썼다. 여성과 대중문화에 관한 글을 주로 쓴다 함께 쓴 책으로는 『을들의 당나귀 귀』와 『페미니즘 교실』, 『나의 복숭아』 등이 있다. 삶의 기본 상태가 느림과 미룸인 탓에 늘 마음이 바쁘지만, 천천히 계속 쓸 이야기를 찾고 있다.

She is a South Korean film journalist, essayist, and book columnist. She started writing because she loves to read.