Samantha W. L. Lee
Chinese-Australian author of the historical novel Bound, poet, essayist, former Head Teacher English, and education consultant based in Sydney.
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Aug 5, 2026
Meg DunleyHOST
from the world around you, from people, from writers? Where do you get your inspiration?
Samantha W. L. LeeGUEST
It's, you know, so for instance, Bound was very much inspired by, it was a story that my mother told me and it was an auntie in her village in Malaysia.
Samantha W. L. LeeGUEST
And keep in mind, they call everyone auntie and uncle, so it wasn't a blood relation.
Samantha W. L. LeeGUEST
But it was a story of a woman who had her feet bound and then the laws, in China, sorry, and then the laws changed and her feet were unbound at the last moment.
Samantha W. L. LeeGUEST
Yeah, she was the last, you know, the first woman in her family to have unbound feet.
Meg DunleyHOST
you drawn on from your career as a teacher, as an English teacher to take into your creative work? Yeah, really