Vinh Nguyen is a writer and educator whose work has appeared in Brick, LitHub, The Malahat Review, PRISM international, Grain, Queen’s Quarterly, The Criterion Collection, and MUBI Notebook. He is a non-fiction editor at The New Quarterly, where he curates an ongoing series on refugee, migrant, and diasporic writing. He is editor and author of three academic books and his writing has been shortlisted for a National Magazine Award and has received the John C. Polanyi Prize for Literature. In 2022, Nguyen was a Lambda Literary Fellow in Non-fiction for emerging LGBTQ writers and in 2024, he was a writer-in-residence at the Historic Joy Kogawa House. His memoir The Migrant Rain Falls in Reverse is a finalist for the 2025 Toronto Book Award and the 2025 Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Nonfiction. Born in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, he lives in Toronto.
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