Our 2025 Keynote Speaker Is Min Jin Lee!

We are thrilled to announce that our 2025 keynote speaker will be Min Jin Lee!

Lee is an award-winning and best-selling author whose work explores race, ethnicity, immigration, class, religion, gender, and identity of a diasporic people. Pachinko, her second novel, follows a Korean family who migrates to Japan; it is the first novel written for an adult, English-speaking audience about the Korean-Japanese people. Pachinko was a finalist for the National Book Award for Fiction, winner of the Medici Book Club Prize, and a New York Times 10 Best Books of 2017. In 2024, Pachinko was named among the New York Times Book Review’s 100 Best Books of the 21st Century.  

We’re counting down the days until we welcome Min in Columbia, Missouri. Tickets – which, as always, will be free for everyone – will be available for reservation soon. Watch this space for more details!