Mihee is a writer, nonprofit arts Executive Director, and healing arts practitioner. She works across disciplines and traditions, foraying between language, multi-modal collage, spiritual traditions and craft forms. Her poetry has been nominated for multiple Best of the Nets, a Pushcart Prize, and her manuscript was named a finalist for the Bergman Prize and winner of the QTBIPOC Prize. Mihee is currently is seeking publication for her 1st book of poetry, Knock Knock.
She earned a B.A. from UC Berkeley in Media Studies and an MFA in Poetry at California College of the Arts, where she was awarded the Leslie Scalapino award and All College Honors. Mihee is the Co-Executive Director of Kearny Street Workshop, a longstanding arts nonprofit empowering Asian diaspora. Mihee also consults for nonprofit leadership development, in media, television and publishing.
Relating to her intuitive offerings, Mihee has training in reiki, qigong, transcendental meditation, energetic neurolinguistic programming, medical mediumship, ancestral healing, Korean folk traditions, and other Western spiritualist traditions. Her liberation oriented, community-based, and pragmatic approach to spiritual healing comes from her ancestral inheritance as Queer, Korean American living in diaspora and from her experience as a creative and as a cultural worker. She is guided by lifelong studies of philosophy, religion and spiritual practices from around the world which led to her deconstructing fundamentalist Christianity at a young age.