Personal Days, published by Random House in May 2008, was a finalist for the PEN Hemingway Award, the John Sargent Sr. First Novel Prize, and the Asian American Literary Award. It was named one of Time's Top Ten Fiction Books of the year and one of The Atlantic's top ten pop culture moments of the decade. His short fiction and creative nonfiction have appeared in various anthologies and journals such as Trampoline (edited by Kelly Link), Burn This Book (edited by Toni Morrison), and Read Hard, the Believer anthology. He drew a comic strip at Yale and received his M.F.A. from Columbia, where he currently teaches in the graduate writing program. He lives in Manhattan with his family.