和媼 • 이평화 • Peace Pyunghwa Lee

Peace Pyunghwa Lee (she/they) is a decolonial and feminist diasporic writer, a Korean-to-English literary translator, an interfaith spiritual director, and an intuitive tarot reader.

Growing up in Korea and the Philippines before immigrating to the United States as a preteen, Peace's journey has been shaped by the intersection of cultures and faiths. As a member of the Korean diaspora, her personal life is intricately woven with the histories of imperial colonialism, war, and Christian missionizing. These experiences, alongside her identity as a racial and gendered other in a white supremacist culture, fuel her commitment to decolonial praxis, reindigenization, and embracing the spiritual inheritance of her ancestors.

After years of service in the Christian church and seminary—where she was an award-winning preacher, pastoral care provider, and professor of homiletics—she stepped away from institutional ministry to fully embrace her lifelong calling. Guided by a deep passion for translating and sharing the voices of Korea, she now brings Korean literature to English and connects the mystical to the everyday in her work with clients.Her translation work honors the layered histories, traumas, and resilience embedded in Korean literature while her tarot practice offers intuitive insights and spiritual guidance, creating spaces for meaning-making and healing.

Through both translation and divination, Peace bridges worlds—the written and unwritten, the historical and mythical, the personal and collective—reclaiming ancestral wisdom and spirituality as she dreams of collective freedom.