Don Lee is the author of three books including most recently the novel Wrack and Ruin (W.W. Norton). His two other books are 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 from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the Members Choice Award from the Asian American Writers’ Workshop. His other numerous honors include an O. Henry Award and a Pushcart Prize. Formerly the principal editor of the literary journal Ploughshares, he is currently a professor in Temple University’s graduate creative writing program in Philadelphia.