Wayne Karlin is the author of numerous books including Lost Armies, The Wished-For Country, Rumors and Stones, Prisoners and Marble Mountain. He is also co-editor, with Le Minh Khue and Trong Vu, and contributor to The Other Side of Heaven: Postwar Fiction by Vietnamese and American Writers. In 1998 he was awarded the Paterson Prize in Fiction, and in 2005 he received an Excellence in the Arts Award from the Vietnam Veterans of America. Karlin lives in Maryland, where he teaches at the College of Southern Maryland.