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Don Lee
is the author of Country of Origin and
a short story collection, Yellow. Yellow won the 2002 Sue Kaufman Prize
for First Fiction from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and was
named by Publishers Weekly as one of the best fiction titles of
2001. Stories from the book received an O. Henry Award and a Pushcart
Prize. His short fiction has been published or is forthcoming in GQ,
Manoa, The Gettysburg Review, The North American Review, Bamboo Ridge,
Glimmer Train, New England Review, American Short Fiction, and
elsewhere. His short nonfiction and book reviews have appeared in The
Village Voice, Boston magazine, Agni, The Improper Bostonian,
Harvard Review, Contemporary Literary Criticism, and Short
Story Criticism. He has been the recipient of fiction fellowships
from the Massachusetts Cultural Council and the St. Botolph Club
Foundation, and a finalist for the National Magazine Award in Fiction.
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He has worked as the full-time editor of the literary journal
Ploughshares in Boston since 1988. He has also been an independent
consultant for numerous literary magazines and organizations,
including The Georgia Review, Asian Pacific American Journal,
and the Council of Literary Magazines & Presses. A member of PEN
American Center, he has served on the Executive Board and the
Diversity Committee of PEN New England, and as a panelist for the
National Endowment for the Arts and the Vermont Council on the Arts.
A third-generation Korean American and the son of a career State
Department officer, he spent his childhood in Tokyo and Seoul. He
received his B.A. in literature from UCLA, and his M.F.A. in creative
writing from Emerson College, where he subsequently taught for four
years and where he was recently a Visiting Writer. He is currently
working on a novel, There Once Was a Country, which is
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