>Ploughshares News

>I heard a couple of days ago from a usually reliable source that Don Lee, longtime (like 18 years?) editor of Ploughshares is leaving that position this summer in order to accept a teaching post at Macalester College. I haven’t seen anything about this on the Ploughshares blog, but as I understand it a national search is underway to name Lee’s successor.

Since Lee took over, Ploughshares has become the pre-eminent American literary magazine, consistently publishing stories that go on to win numerous awards. It’s nearly impossible to break into its pages through the slush pile, but it is without a doubt the magazine I most aspire to. It will be very interesting to see who takes the helm.

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I am the author of three novels--THE LAST BIRD OF PARADISE, OLIVER'S TRAVELS, and THE SHAMAN OF TURTLE VALLEY--and three story collections--IN AN UNCHARTED COUNTRY, HOUSE OF THE ANCIENTS AND OTHER STORIES, and WHAT THE ZHANG BOYS KNOW, winner of the Library of Virginia Literary Award for Fiction. I am also the co-founder and former editor of Prime Number Magazine and the editor of the award-winning anthology series EVERYWHERE STORIES: SHORT FICTION FROM A SMALL PLANET.

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