Don Lee has received an American Book Award, the Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction, the Edgar Award for Best First Novel, an O. Henry Award, a Pushcart Prize, and the Fred R. Brown Literary Award. His stories have appeared in "The Kenyon Review", "GQ", "The Southern Review", "American Short Fiction", "The Gettysburg Review", and elsewhere. For nineteen years, he was the principal editor of the literary journal "Ploughshares". He is currently the director of the MFA program in creative writing at Temple University.