Matthew Salesses was adopted from Korea at age two. He is the author of THE HUNDRED-YEAR FLOOD (Little A/Amazon, August 2015). Other books include DIFFERENT RACISMS (essays) and I'M NOT SAYING, I'M JUST SAYING (a novel). He has written for NPR Code Switch, The New York Times Motherlode blog, Salon, the Center for Asian American Media, The Good Men Project, The Rumpus, Glimmer Train, PEN America, and many others, and has received awards from the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, Glimmer Train, Mid-American Review, PANK, HTMLGIANT, Emerson College, Inprint, and the University of Houston.