KRYS LEE is the author of the short story collection Drifting House and the forthcoming novel How I Became a North Korean. She is a recipient of the Rome Prize and the Story Prize Spotlight Award, the Honor Title in Adult Fiction Literature from the Asian/Pacific American Libraries Association, and a finalist for the BBC International Story Prize. Her fiction, journalism, and literary translations have appeared in Granta, the Kenyon Review, Narrative, the San Francisco Chronicle, and the Guardian, among others. She teaches creative writing and literature at Yonsei University in South Korea.