Author Description

About the Author Christopher Bundy moved to Atlanta, Georgia, with his wife, Jennie, three years ago after living in Japan and traveling through Asia. This is his second appearance in Glimmer Train Stories. If asked, he would gladly appear on Oprah.J. Patrice Whetsell is a graduate of Oberlin College and has been an Artist-in-Residence at the Ragdale Foundation, the Headlands Center for the Arts, and the Vermont Studio Center. She is currently working on her second novel. This is her first published story.Diane Chang was born in a village near Shanghai, China in 1976, and immigrated to the United States with her family at the age of three. She holds an MFA from the University of Michigan and, in 2000, received a Fulbright grant to work on her first novel in Shanghai. "Mother Knows" is her first published story.Jennifer Oh was born in Boston, Massachusetts, and was raised in Carrboro, North Carolina. She received her BA with high distinction in English from Duke University (2002). Her recent awards include the 2001 Short Fiction Prize in an international undergraduate contest sponsored by SUNY at Stony Brook, and a Benenson Arts Award to conduct writing workshops with AIDS patients in New York City. Ms. Oh is currently studying creative writing at Columbia University’s MFA program.Carol Roh-Spaulding is Associate Professor of English at Drake University, where she teaches fiction writing and American ethnic literature. She has written a collection of stories titled Brides of Valencia and is completing a second collection, Waiting for Mr. Kim. She is also compiling an edited collection of short fiction on the subject of mixed race in Asian American literature. Her fiction, essays, and poetry have appeared in several journals, including Ploughshares, Glimmer Train, and the Mississippi Review, and have been anthologized in several collections, including Janet Burroway’s Writing Fiction (3rd edition), Shawn Wong’s Harpercollins edition, Asian American Literature, th