The Hundred-Year Flood (19 page)

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Photo © 2011 Stephanie Mitchell

Matthew Salesses was adopted from Korea at age two. He has written about adoption and race for NPR’s
Code Switch
, the
New York Times Motherlode
blog, and
Salon
, and his fiction has appeared in
Guernica
/PEN,
Glimmer Train
, and
American Short Fiction
, among others. He is the fiction editor and a contributing writer at the
Good Men Project
. He is also the author of
I’m Not Saying, I’m Just Saying
.
The Hundred-Year Flood
is his first full-length novel.