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Sunlit Residency

The Sue-Je Lee Gage Residency for Human Rights & Social Justice

Sunlit Alumni

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2026 Summer Residents

Audrey Dahyung Oh is a trans-media artist and community advocate creating interactive installations that redefine the relationship between technology and tradition. Rooted in a practice that blends physical computing, sensor-based systems, and speculative design, Oh explores East Asian folklore and superstition as dynamic terrain where public desires and modern taboos converge. Her work investigates what lies beyond scientific rationality, offering alternative, poetic solutions in spaces where modernity has left a vacuum. Audrey Oh is a graduate student at NYU’s Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP), where she received the Tisch School of the Arts Scholarship. Her work has also been recognized by the Korean American Scholarship Foundation and the Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race (CSER) at Columbia University. She is currently based in New York City. While in residence at Sunlit this summer, Audrey will be working on a project entitled "Offering II."

2025 Summer Residents

Jung Hae Chae is a Korean American writer and author of the forthcoming memoir-in-essays, POJANGMACHA PEOPLE (Graywolf Press, 2025), winner of the 2022 Graywolf Press Nonfiction Prize. The book deeply explores the matrilineal inheritance of han in the Korean diaspora. Built from memory, imagination, and meditative inquiry, these essays center the lives of “ordinary” Korean women-mothers—of postwar, diasporic households—who take action as the makers of their own fortunes, even when thwarted by the oppressive forces that have affected them and generations before them. Chae's work has been distinguished with the 2021 Crazyhorse Prize in Nonfiction, the 2019 Emerging Writers Contest in Nonfiction from Ploughshares, and a 2019 Pushcart Prize in nonfiction. Her writing can be found in AGNI, Guernica, New England Review, Ploughshares, swamp pink (formerly Crazyhorse), and the Best American Essays 2022 among others. She has been supported by the New Jersey State Council on the Arts, Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation, Bread Loaf Writers Conference, Sewanee Writers Conference, among others. Jung Hae holds an MFA in Poetry from Southern Illinois University-Carbondale.

2024 Summer Residents

Hannah Bae is a freelance journalist and nonfiction writer based in Brooklyn, NY. She was the 2020 nonfiction winner of the Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Award and a 2022 and 2021 Peter Taylor Fellow for The Kenyon Review Writers Workshops. During her residency at Sunlit, she will work on her memoir-in-progress, tentatively titled Way Enough, which interrogates what happens when a survivor of child abuse finally stops trying to outrun her trauma and takes the time to heal. Hannah's writing is focused on Asian American and Korean American communities, and she has published essays on the 1980 Gwangju uprising, justice for Asian women forced into World War II-era sex slavery, mental health and healing from parental abuse in Asian American communities. Her work has been published in the anthologies "Our Red Book: Intimate Histories of Periods, Growing & Changing," "Uncertain Girls: Poetry, Essential Advice and Practical Know-how for Women Aiming to Set the World on Fire" and "(Don't) Call Me Crazy: 33 Voices Start the Conversation About Mental Health."

2023 Summer Residents

Wei En Chan is a Singaporean countertenor. He leads an active career in Asia and North America performing the major works of Bach and Handel and has appeared in leading roles with numerous organizations. Wei En earned his M.M. in Voice Performance from the New England Conservatory, where he studied with Dr. Ian Howell, and his B.M. from Ithaca College, where he studied with Professor Carol McAmis. Wei En started his vocal training with eminent Singaporean musicians such as Toh Ban Sheng and Tay Cheng-Jim. Among his many professional affiliations, Wei En is also the founder and Artistic Director of Camerata Nova Anglia’s recital series devoted to exploring the stories of POC singers. During his residency, Wei En will be learning repertoire for a recital series focusing on songs from Singapore, Korea, and Colombia. This preparation is part of a fall recital series where Wei En is working with immigrant professional singers from Korea and Colombia to craft a recital program that best showcases songs from their countries of origin through spoken stories from their own lives.

2022 Summer Residents

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