Min Jin Lee

Min Jin Lee went to Yale College where she was awarded both the Henry Wright Prize for Nonfiction and the James Ashmun Veech Prize for Fiction. She then attended Georgetown Law School and worked as a lawyer for several years before leaving to write full time.

She has received the New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship for Fiction, the Peden Prize for Best Story from the Missouri Review, and the Narrative Prize for New and Emerging Writer. Her work has also been featured on NPR's Selected Shorts and anthologized in To Be Real and Breeder. She lives in New York City with her husband and son.