ABOUT

Bowen has been writing copiously ever since a pencil fit into her hand. Journaling has been her lifelong sanctuary. Now the sanctuary doors are opening as she publishes on the world wide web. 

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When she was three years old, her mother caught her reading a book of Persian fairy tales. This was not a book that had ever been read to Bowen. She was just telling the stories in it, as if that is what one does when turning the pages of a book. Bowen remembers suddenly realizing she could read, when the store signs on Broadway street in Oakland, California were no longer just parts of the building, but were decipherable words. The discovery was disturbing. It meant she could no longer be ignorant.

 

She started writing soon after that, and a neighbor put her illustrated poem of a black cat on the refrigerator door. Ahh! Publication!

 

Bowen Lee is a professional storyteller and educator specializing in historical, environmental, and educational storytelling performances and workshops. She is a retired public school K-12 teacher of 37 years in science, English language acquisition, and professional and curriculum development. She has performed in person at regional and national events, and virtually for international, national, and regional events and programs.

 

She has performed in person at the Menlo Park Library, the Oakland Museum of California, the Pacific Grove Museum of Natural History, the Museum on Main in Pleasanton, CA, the Dangburg Historical House in Nevada, the Orcas Island Library, as well as the National Storytelling Network Conferences, The Northeast Storytelling Conferences, the Women’s Storytelling Conference, the Bay Area Storytelling Festival, Northwest Folklife, and the American School of Storytelling. Her virtual performances are numerous, including the Yorkshire Festival of Stories, the Federation of Asian Storytellers, Artists Standing Strong Together, the Healing Story Alliance, and the Asian American Storytellers In Action. She is a Chautauqua scholar and environmental story activist.