A review of How to Navigate Our Universe by The Sciku Project, January 2025

“It’s safe to say that I’m a fan of poet and author Mary Soon Lee. I adored Elemental Haiku, her series of haiku based on each element of the period table. I also really enjoyed The Sign of the Dragon, a stunning epic fantasy poem sequence that’s well worth seeking out (and has recently been published in an illustrated version). And my three-part interview with her was fascinating, leading to a continuing and delightful sporadic correspondence over the past few years. So, please take this review of her 2023 collection of poetry How To Navigate Our Universe with a pinch of salt…. Salted or not, How To Navigate Our Universe is a joy.”

Read the whole review.

Brandon O’Brien, Poet Laureate for the upcoming Seattle Worldcon, chatted with me about speculative poetry, for his Con-Verse blog for Worldcon.

You can read the interview here.

Penumbric interview, April 2024

Jeff Georgeson of Penumbric kindly interviewed me, posing questions about cultural influences, The Sign of the Dragon, How to Navigate Our Universe, Zoom, and more.

Read the whole interview.

Strange Horizons review of How to Navigate Our Universe by Vivian Wagner, February 2024.

“How to Navigate Our Universe is a collection of speculative poetry by Mary Soon Lee which plays with the notion that planets might have personalities, moons might have jealousies, and the universe itself might be understood by examining its neighborhoods….”

Read Vivian Wagner’s whole review.

Space Cowboy Books reading/interview, February 2024

Space Cowboy Books hosted an event where I first read from How to Navigate Our Universe and then Jean-Paul Garnier interviewed me.

You can watch the video version or listen to the audio only (for the audio option, scroll to find the relevant interview).