Don Lee served for many years as the editor of the prominent literary journal Ploughshares, a position he left in June to teach full time at Macalester College. He is the author of the story collection Yellow and the novel Country of Origin, and his work has received an O. Henry Award, the Pushcart Prize, an American Book Award, the Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction, and the Fred R. Brown Literary Award, among other honors. A second novel, Wrack and Ruin, will be published by W. W. Norton in April 2008.