Don Lee

Don Lee (born 1959) is an American novelist, fiction writer, literary journal editor, and creative writing professor.

The son of a State Department officer, Lee—a third-generation Korean American—spent his childhood in Tokyo (where he attended ASIJ, or the American School in Japan) and Seoul. He received his B.A. in English Literature from University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and his M.F.A. in Creative Writing and Literature from Emerson College. and a Pushcart Prize (for his short story "The Price of Eggs in China"). Lee has also received fellowships from the Massachusetts Cultural Council and the St. Botolph Club Foundation, and residencies from Yaddo and the Lannan Foundation. In 2007, Lee received the inaugural Fred R. Brown Literary Award for emerging novelists from the University of Pittsburgh's creative writing program.

Lee was formerly a faculty member of the Creative Writing department at Macalester College from 2007 to 2008. The book, which revisits Rosarita Bay, was published by W.W. Norton in April 2008, and was also a finalist for the Thurber Prize. The novel won the 2013 Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature from the Asian Pacific American Librarians Association.