Don Lee is the author of the novel Country of Origin, which won an American Book Award, and the story collection Yellow, which won the Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction. A new novel, Wrack and Ruin, will be published by W.W. Norton in April 2008.
He has received an O. Henry Award and a Pushcart Prize, and his stories have been published in The Kenyon Review, GQ, New England Review, The North American Review, The Gettysburg Review, Bamboo Ridge, Manoa, American Short Fiction, Glimmer Train, Charlie Chan Is Dead 2, Screaming Monkeys, Narrative, and elsewhere. His book reviews and essays have appeared in The Boston Globe, Harvard Review, Agni, Boston magazine, The Village Voice, and other magazines.
From 1988 to 2007, he was the editor of the literary journal Ploughshares. He received his B.A. in English literature from UCLA and his M.F.A. in creative writing and literature from Emerson College. After graduating, he taught undergraduate fiction writing workshops at Emerson for four years as an adjunct instructor. More recently, he has been an occasional writer-in-residence in Emerson's M.F.A. program and a visiting writer at other colleges and universities.
Areas of Study
Creative writing, short stories, novellas, and novels
