Chin-Sun Lee is the youngest child of North Korean exiles, both
her parents having fled their native provinces for Seoul at the outset of
the Korean War. After a long career in fashion design, she earned an
MFA in Creative Writing at The New School in New York. Her work
has appeared in The Rumpus, Joyland, Your Impossible Voice, The
Doctor T.J. Eckleburg Review, and The Believer Logger, among other
publications. She's also a contributor to the New York Times bestselling
anthology Women in Clothes (Blue Rider Press/Penguin 2014) and has
participated in the Blood Jet and Lady Fest Reading Series in New
Orleans, the Franklin Park, Earshot, and Renegade Reading Series in
Brooklyn, and the inaugural Riverviews Artspace event in Lynchburg.
She currently lives in New Orleans, working on her second novel.
Upcountry is her debut.