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和媼 • 이평화 • Peace Pyunghwa Lee

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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.

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이평화는 탈식민주의적 페미니스트 디아스포라 작가이자 한영 문학 번역가, 영적 지도자, 그리고 직관적인 타로 리더입니다. 목사/선교사 자녀로 모국인 한국을 어린 나이에 떠나 필리핀과 미국에서 성장하며 어려서부터 타종교관과 세계관에 관심이 많았습니다. 십년을 넘게 기독교 교회와 신학교에서 설교자, 목회 상담사, 그리고 설교 및 목회학 교수로 활동한 후, 그녀는 오랫동안 품어온 꿈을 좇아 문학 번역과 영적 돌봄을 제공하는 일을 소명으로 삼아 한국 문학을 번역하고, 손님들에게 타로와 영적 상담을 통해 치유와 성장을 돕고 있습니다. 그녀의 번역 작업은 한국 문학 속에 새겨진 역사와 회복의 흔적을 존중하며, 타로 리딩을 통해 신비와 일상의 경계를 넘나드는 깊은 통찰을 제공합니다.

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