Don Lee is the author most recently of the novel Wrack and Ruin (W.W. Norton, 2009). He is also the author of the novel Country of Origin (W.W. Norton, 2005), which won an American Book Award, the Edgar Award for Best First Novel, and a Mixed Media Watch Image Award for Outstanding Fiction, and the story collection Yellow (W.W. Norton, 2002), which won the Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction. He was the principal editor for Ploughshares for nineteen years, and is currently a professor in Temple University’s MFA program. (updated 7/2010)