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, was 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.
EDUCATION: B.A., University of California, Los Angeles MFA, Emerson College
Books
Short Stories / Creative Prose
