Phong Nguyen

Phong Nguyen is a writer and teacher of fiction who holds the Miller Family Endowed Chair at the University of Missouri, where he directs creative writing. His novel The Bronze Drum (2022), a retelling of the Trưng sisters' story from ancient Vietnam, is his most recent book. He has also published several other novels and story collections, including The Adventures of Joe Harper (Outpost19, 2016), which won the Prairie Heritage Book Award.